Westerdam is no longer coming to Juneau<\/a>]<\/ins><\/p>\n“We handed out a little over 2,100 pounds (of food) in an hour,” said Southeast Alaska Food Bank manager Chris Schapp in a phone interview Monday. “The need is great. People are going to be displaced from work and school, the need is going to be more.”<\/p>\n
As great as the need is, employees and volunteers are taking measures to ensure risk minimization from cross-contamination.<\/p>\n
“All the hard, heavy lifting, metaphorical and literal, is done by a crew of women in their 70s and 80s,” said Wall. “They work really hard to keep the food bank running.”<\/p>\n
The elderly and those with pre-existing respiratory or cardiovascular conditions are the highest risk from the coronavirus, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and World Health Organization.<\/p>\n
Wall will work with younger volunteers, including her children, to bag food to hand to people at the door, minimizing contact and possible contamination.<\/p>\n
“It’s an all hands on deck kind of thing,” Schapp said. “Everyone needs to support everyone else.”<\/p>\n
Shepherd of the Valley Lutheran will be handing out pre-bagged items to those who need them.<\/p>\n
“It’s not the ideal way to run a food pantry, but for right now, it works,” said Pastor Tari Stage-Harvey in a phone interview Tuesday. “Normally we have a wide assortment of items, so each bag has mostly the same things.”<\/p>\n
St. Brendan’s Episcopal will be handing out bags of food during their food pantry hours this Thursday from 4:30 p.m. to 6 p.m, said Priest Caroline Malseed in a phone interview Tuesday. But that’ll be all for St. Brendan’s for the foreseeable future, Malseed said.<\/p>\n
The Salvation Army will hold open hours for their food pantry from 4-6 p.m. on Thursdays, canceling their Tuesday hours, said Salvation Army officer Gina Halverson in a phone interview Tuesday.<\/p>\n
“We encourage people to call in so we can have it premade and so people don’t have to be here long,” Halverson said.<\/p>\n
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