Open in DUMFRIES, VA. (WUSA)-The Act on the food pantry at Dumfries will return Tuesday at 1 PM, one week earlier than expected, thanks to an increase in donations. Only a few days, it has earned 12,000 pounds of food and $ 65,000, including a $ 5,000 grant from the Gannett Foundation.
On Saturday, a trailer will be given to using the backup storage facility for food. On Saturday and Sunday from 1 PM-3, acting needs volunteers to help move food and goods trucks. They also need help with important food items which pocketed will be given to 250 or more poor families are expected to come on Tuesday.
The shelves are bare and Brown, now the light again and stacked up. They are filled with cans of Greens and yellows, red labeled jars of jam and the big yellow box of cereal.
Individuals, groups, businesses and organizations have been sending in food bags to answer calls for help.
"I've never seen it close and I have never seen this reactin. It's wonderful, "said Dave Forcier, volunteer for four years.