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White Center Food Bank Welcomes Community to New Facility

by Agueda Pacheco Flores

Volunteers were working hard Monday morning, stocking shelves and organizing the back-of-house warehouse while a line started forming outside White Center Food Bank’s new facility, located on 16th Avenue Southwest.

“When people think of food banks, they think of only canned goods,” said Randy Nguyen, the marketing and community engagement coordinator for the White Center Food Bank (WCFB), while walking around the grocery-store-style distribution center. But WCFB carries more than canned goods.“We offer culturally familiar foods,” Nguyen added.

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Features

As Holidays Approach, So Do Food Insecurity Concerns

by Elizabeth Turnbull

As the food-centric holidays of Thanksgiving, Hanukkah, Christmas, and New Year’s Day approach, many Seattlietes are confronted with maintaining financial and food security amid the new lockdown and further deliberations over future federal aid.

Various food banks in South Seattle have seen an increased need for food in the community from the beginning of the pandemic response in the spring. As happens every year around this time, this need has become even greater in preparation for the holidays.

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South King County Food Banks Face Severe Shortages — And There’s No End in Sight

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by Carolyn Bick

It’s sunny, and beginning to get warm on an afternoon in early May, when people start to line up outside the White Center Food Bank. Clad in masks, they patiently wait an adequate distance from each other to choose food the National Guard is helping food bank workers distribute.

This outdoor model is the latest iteration of food service the food bank has tried, Associate Executive Director Carmen Smith said. So far, it’s also the most successful, she said. Usually, the food bank operates in a grocery store model, which allows patrons the freedom to choose their own items, and mitigate the stigma associated with needing to use a food bank. But once the novel coronavirus pandemic hit the state, Smith and her fellow food bank employees found that the inside of the food bank was just too small to allow for safe social distancing practices. Having volunteers shop for the patrons’ food was also a no-go, because it’s just too hard to shop for someone else, Smith said.

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