Bread Basket welcomes help, donations
John Schnase
Ronan High BPA members Sam Mocabee, Trevor Blackburn and Brennan Roullier help unload 2,000 cans of food Dec. 1 at the Bread Basket in Ronan.
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RONAN —Ronan High School students Sam Mocabee, Trevor Blackburn and Brennan Roullier helped unload 2,000 pounds of food at the Bread Basket on a recent morning. The Montana Food Bank delivers the goods every six weeks, according to volunteer Patti Mocabee. This time the entire load was canned goods. Sometimes the Bread Basket is able to purchase items, such as cereals, “at a very cheap rate, but this time not extra food to buy,” she explained.
Offloading all those cans takes muscle.
“But I have a strapping big grandson, and he has good friends,” Mocabee said. Her grandson, Sam, also happens to be the president of the high school’s service organization called the Business Professionals of America. A quick approval from the advisor freed the lads for the task, and when joined by six other volunteers, unloading the ton of cans only took 30 minutes.
A ton of food sounds like a lot of meals. But the food bank gives out 25-40 pounds of food per month, per family. In November the food bank served 200 families. Those 2,000 pounds are just a quarter of what’s need each month.
With the coming holidays, the bank will provide chickens or turkeys, depending on the size of the family. Donations of food or money are always welcome, especially with the coming holidays, according to Mocabee.
