There will be a stuff the bus event in the Safeway parking lot in Cortez on Saturday, Nov. 9 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
“Food is one thing we ALL have in common,” Sorrell Redford, the education director at the Montezuma School to Farm Project, wrote in an email.
“The Good Sam’s Food Pantry in Cortez distributes food all year, rain or shine,” said Redford. “Saturday is their big food drive this season, so please help make it a success.”
Redford said they feed about 2,000 people a month, triple than what they saw at the height of the pandemic.
“We really need Thanksgiving items, cooking oil, healthy snacks, canned fruit and cereal,” Redford said.
The Good Samaritan Food Pantry is a nonprofit on Beech Street, and this event will help it “stock up for the winter,” an advertisement said.
They do a “Stuff the Bus” event every year, but didn’t have much time to promote it this year because they found out about it only a few weeks ago, Redford said.
The pantry operates like a grocery store, and welcomes everyone to come and shop bi-weekly.
Community members are often lined up outside the pantry on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Fridays to get food for themselves and their families.
Good Sam’s is looking for volunteers and donations, and can accept most things so long as they’re fresh, unopened and haven’t been frozen for more than a year.
It’s located at 30-C N. Beech St. and accepts donations between 10 a.m. and 3 p.m., Monday to Friday.
For donation questions, call (970) 565-6424 or email director@goodsamscortez.org.
