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RONAN — Volunteers for the Lake County Council on Aging’s commodity program are worried that they will have problems making food delivery to hundreds of Mission Valley seniors in September, after the container where most of the delivery bags are collected broke. 

Volunteer Sylvia Krantz said she gets 70 percent of the bags for the program from Harvest Foods in Ronan. The bags are returned to a bin at the front of the store by shoppers, but earlier this month the bin broke. 

Krantz worries she won’t be able to get the 2,000 bags needed by the Sept. 23 deadline, and hopes the public will help by leaving large plastic bags from Harvest Foods, Mission Mart, Pablo IGA and Super 1 in Polson. 

“Safeway and Walmart bags are too small,” Krantz said. “We put 10 to 12 pounds of food in each bag, and we double them. I use around 2,000 bags every two months.” 

Krantz said bags can be left at the Mission Valley Senior Citizens Center in Ronan, or the Lake County Council on Aging at 528 Main St. SW. 

Harvest Foods courtesy clerk Ethan Fryslie said the store is trying to get a new receptacle for the bins, but meanwhile, the store is still collecting them. 

“People can bring them to the customer service desk and we will take them to the back room,” Fryslie said. 

The food is delivered to low-income seniors across Mission Valley.

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