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Gunnison Country Times
Dec. 16, 2021
Boy Scout Troop 476 delivered 485 pounds of food to the Gunnison Country Food Pantry during their holiday community service. The scouts extend special thanks to Ace Hardware for the bags and to the community households that helped fill them. Standing in the back row are Jonathan Robinson, Spencer Hays, Kade Jones, Jonny Pierce and Scout Master Josh Pierce. In the front are Margaret Cranor, Lincoln Hemmert, Katie Dix, and Ethan Pierce.
Some residents of the North Valley in Gunnison County are not immune to having to deal with food insecurity. Just because Crested Butte is a growing, increasingly wealthy community, doesn’t mean some people living in the area don’t have to worry about how to provide enough food for them or their families.
Listen to a conversation with Food Pantry ED, Jodi Payne, and Gunnison Country Times’ Alan Wartes. Jodi Payne is executive director of the Gunnison Country Food Pantry. In this episode of Think Radio, she discussed her journey from volunteering at a shelter in Marquette, Michigan, to the world of professional non-profit management.
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