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The Voice of Seguin Today
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Limited space at Christian Cupboard halts plans for normal holiday food drive
Food donations, however, still be accepted by individuals, families By Cindy Aguirre-Herrera
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(Seguin) -- Normally at this time, Seguin’s food pantry, the Christian Cupboard, would already begin to see its shelves fill up with donations from across the community. Those donations would be pulled in from schools, churches and businesses all collecting as part of the cupboard’s annual Fall Food Harvest Drive. Unfortunately, however, due to a building project halted by COVID-19, Regina Lee, executive director of the cupboard, says this year’s food drive has been cancelled. She says the back end of the cupboard has been demolished in anticipation of a rebuild project. That project has obviously left them with less storage space to hold food. Now, although they won’t be hosting their annual food drive, Lee says food still be accepted from now through Dec. 31. “We don’t have the space that we normally have. No one has done anything to us. We were blessed by a member of the community in his will. He left us some money. We have elected to take this money and put up a new building and refurbish the front part of our building. Now, in all this happening, COVID-19 came, and everything was shut down at some point. We weren’t. We were
shut down one week, but we were not shut down, but the city has been shut down. My builder can’t get the (papers), things he needs in order to start doing the building. We’ve lost some of our storage space, so I don’t have the storage space to actually have the quote, unquote food drive that we normally have. The biggest portion of our food drive is our schools doing it which we love it but I don’t have a place to put it,” said Lee Now while they may not be leading the effort of a community wide food drive, Lee says she still expects folks to give plenty this holiday season. “I had two people call me this morning asking about doing local things (food drives) in the area and I can handle that. I can handle that type of quantity. I can handle that type of quantity two or three times a week because it’s going to come in the back and go right out the front. What I can’t handle is food that is going to sit there a couple of months. I don’t have the space. We are still asking the community to remember, even at the Blue Santa, to remember even at that point because, we can do that short turnaround. It’s the abundance of food at one time that I can’t handle right now,” said Lee. See CHRISTIAN CUPBOARD, page 2