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When Denise Johnson volunteers at her neighborhood food pantry every week, she’s carrying on a family tradition. Her mother Phyllis volunteered at Southern Anoka Community Assistance (SACA) in suburban Minneapolis every Wednesday for 20 years. Today, Phyllis lives in a memory care unit and struggles to recall moments in her life, including her decades at the pantry. As a volunteer, Denise honors her mother’s legacy. “They remember her here,” she said. “I feel like I'm following in her footsteps.” Her parents mentored her to become a volunteer once she retired. Her father Don volunteered, too, helping annually with holiday fundraising and distributions. After working in respiratory therapy for 47 years, Denise retired in September 2021. Working through 18 months of the COVID-19 pandemic was “the most rewarding and difficult time of my career,” she said. As a volunteer at SACA, an agency partner of Second Harvest Heartland, she assists her neighbors as they shop the client choice pantry. She loves to see the “smiles on their faces” as they do “their own grocery shopping, which is a fundamental thing that we all get to do,” she said. “I live in the community, and I knew I wanted to do something to support Columbia Heights and Anoka County,” she said. Hunger “is here, and it’s in every community.”
The Senior Box program distributes Commodity Supplemental Food Program (CSFP) food from the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) that is managed by the Texas Department of Agriculture (TDA) to income-elligible seniors (60+).

Eligibility Requirements

Seniors must be 60 years of age or older to be eligible.

*2023 Elderly income guidelines based on 130% of Federal Poverty Guidelines

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South Plains Food Bank
5605 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd.
Lubbock, Texas 79404

Phone: 806-763-3003
Fax: 806-741-0850
Email: [email protected]

South Plains Food Bank is a 501(c)(3) private nonprofit organization.
EIN: 75-1904829. A Member of the Feeding America Network.
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