Harvest and Trinity Lutheran churches of Crookston are partnering with Farmers to Families to present another drive-through grocery event this Saturday. Free food boxes will be available in the Crookston High School parking lot.
Jason Tangquist said there will only be one truck this time. “We were able to secure another food truck for this Saturday,” said Tangquist. “Harvest Church and Trinity Lutheran are again sponsoring the event, and we want to make people aware. The boxes are available to anyone. With one truck, we’re trying to give out one box per family unit. It’s best if they don’t come and say I’m getting for five families. We’d rather have it be where a couple of people come and say we’re each getting for our family or like that, so we’re not loading up one car and not knowing are there really five families. Not that we’re not going to give out the food, but when we’ve got a long line, it’s what we’re trying to do. Probably 1-3 boxes per vehicle, especially if people come together.”
Tangquist said the boxes have a good variety. “Lately, it’s been some produce like carrots or potatoes, and usually some meet of some type,” said Tangquist. “This last time, it was like cooked chicken breast. There has been hamburger, pork chops, sandwich meat, hotdogs. Usually, some protein in the form of meat, a couple of dairy items, some produce, and usually a few extra things that don’t fall into a category. The boxes last time were really good boxes.”
The event will start around 10 a.m. “We’ll be in the high school parking lot,” said Tangquist. “The issue we have is we don’t know exactly when the truck is coming because it’s coming from a distance. Our hope is to have the truck unloaded to the point we can start distributing food to the people in line around 10 a.m. But if the truck gets there earlier, we could get started at 9:45 a.m. Usually, we like to get going because the line has been out of the parking lot and down the road the last couple of times. It’s going to be around 10 a.m., but it might be just a little bit before.”
Youth at both churches and the Leo Club will be helping distribute food, but Tangquist said they might need a couple of extra adults to help too, so if an adult member of the churches is available, they should let the churches know. Tangquist will join Valley Talk on Friday at 10:40 a.m. to provide more details on the food distribution event.
