The Idaho Falls Community Food Bank is one of RSVP's primary partners. Buck Horton is one of the tireless leaders of the Food Bank. He's also one of RSVP's Top Volunteers, amassing over 8,600 hours on our records alone. The Melaleuca Company featured the Food Bank, Soup Kitchen and Boy Scouts with their broadsheet Community Page in the January 4th Sunday Post Register. Buck's smiling face sure looks good on that page! RSVP is very proud of the Food Banks, the Soup Kitchen and The Scouts and all the volunteers who help those organizations function so well. RSVP salutes Frank VanderSloot, Melaleuca CEO, for his dedication to showcasing the incredible community service of these organizations. Demand at the Food Bank is up about 50% from last year. At times in 2008, donated food supplies ran out and the Food Banks had to rely on their cash reserves to buy food at open market prices. Last fall over 12,000 Boy Scouts really went all out on their food drive, collecting nearly 425,000 cans of food! We hope you take time to click on the link above and read The Community Page. It's great to see such kudos for hard working volunteers! (NOTE: Click on the little picture at right to see a larger version of it.)
Thursday, January 8, 2009
Food Banks, Soup Kitchen & Scouts saluted!
The Idaho Falls Community Food Bank is one of RSVP's primary partners. Buck Horton is one of the tireless leaders of the Food Bank. He's also one of RSVP's Top Volunteers, amassing over 8,600 hours on our records alone. The Melaleuca Company featured the Food Bank, Soup Kitchen and Boy Scouts with their broadsheet Community Page in the January 4th Sunday Post Register. Buck's smiling face sure looks good on that page! RSVP is very proud of the Food Banks, the Soup Kitchen and The Scouts and all the volunteers who help those organizations function so well. RSVP salutes Frank VanderSloot, Melaleuca CEO, for his dedication to showcasing the incredible community service of these organizations. Demand at the Food Bank is up about 50% from last year. At times in 2008, donated food supplies ran out and the Food Banks had to rely on their cash reserves to buy food at open market prices. Last fall over 12,000 Boy Scouts really went all out on their food drive, collecting nearly 425,000 cans of food! We hope you take time to click on the link above and read The Community Page. It's great to see such kudos for hard working volunteers! (NOTE: Click on the little picture at right to see a larger version of it.)
