Harvest and Trinity Lutheran churches of Crookston partner 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 they plan to start giving out food mid-morning. “We’ve gotten another truck for this Saturday,” said Tangquist. “The youth groups from both Trinity and Harvest Church are ready to go, and some of the members, of course. The Leo Club is going to be out there, and I think one of the auxiliaries as well. It will be in the morning on Saturday. Hopefully, the truck gets in around 8 a.m. We can get things unloaded and be ready to start giving out the boxes by 9:30 a.m.”
The boxes usually have a good variety of products. “They usually have some fruit and vegetables of some kind, some produce,” said Tangquist. “Then, there is usually a couple of different meat products and dairy products like cheese, yogurt, sour cream, that sort of thing. Then there are a number of miscellaneous items as well. The boxes have been really good the last few times.”
Because there is only one truck, they’d like to keep it to one box per family unit, said Tangquist. “It’s open to anybody at the high school parking lot again,” said Tangquist. “We have people enter on the south side of the lot on Fisher. There is usually a little bit of a line. It all just depends on the morning. People can start lining up, and as soon as we’re ready, we’ll start sending them through the line and get the number of boxes they need. We don’t have limits other than we’d like to give one box to each family unit. So, if someone comes in a car with a couple of people and they’ve each got a family, we’ll probably give them a couple of boxes.”
Tangquist added people could pick up for people unable to get out to get their own box. “Try to set aside time to come by sometime after 9:30 a.m.,” said Tangquist. “Probably, between 9:30-11:30 is primetime to stop through. A couple of times, we’ve still had a couple of boxes around 11-11:15, and then people come to pick up a couple of boxes for people they know that maybe can’t get out. That’s fine as well.”
