Caleb Bell carries Irene Best’s favorite yellow stool, one of the final items to depart the long-tike FISH food bank home in Concordia Lutheran Church on the Heights.
Caleb Bell carries Irene Best’s favorite yellow stool, one of the final items to depart the long-tike FISH food bank home in Concordia Lutheran Church on the Heights.
Caleb Bell carries Irene Best’s favorite yellow stool, one of the final items to depart the long-tike FISH food bank home in Concordia Lutheran Church on the Heights.
On Monday Bell and other Ryan Juice Company volunteers helped FISH volunteers move the last shelves, tables, chairs, bulletin boards and bags of food from the June Street location, home for the past 12 years, to FISH’s new $1 million headquarters on Tucker Road next to Asbury Our Redeemer Lutheran Church. Food bank patrons now go to the Tucker Road location for food, where they will choose their goods in a supermarket shopping system (photo at right, as volunteers get a tour.)
The yellow stool has been at the food bank since its early days, and was the favorite perch of the late Irene Best, a food bank founder. New furniture, along with nearly-new equipment such as shelving donated by Hood River Supply, will be in use at the expanded food bank site. The Odell, Parkdale and Cascade Locks sites continue to operate on the same schedule. One of the Hood River freezers is being moved to the Cascade Locks site.
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