The Wiregrass Area Food Bank opened a brand-new industrial freezer, which will allow them to store over 60 pallets of perishable food to help them fight hunger in the Wiregrass.
Troy Fountain and the Wiregrass Foundation, along with many generous donors, helped fund the project; it was made a reality by Engineered Systems. Board chair Linda Hiller said
Food Bank Assistant Director Julie Gonzalez said the freezer will allow the Food Bank to dedicate more resources to procuring and distributing food.
“The freezer we’re dedicating today will hold approximately two truckloads full of frozen food, and what we’re actually doing is taking food out of the trucks to put back on the road to go get more donations,” she said. “It’s just a way we can make sure that we don’t pass up any donations that can be used to serve our folks here in the Wiregrass.”
With the new freezer, the food bank is able to avoid shipping of food they can’t store.
“The last thing we want to do is waste food,” Gonzalez said. “Now this will give us more capability to bring in more donations and have a way to get it our to agencies.”
They had been using freezer trucks, so having an industrial freezer will save costs on electricity and fuel.
