Two well-timed donations this week kept the shelves of the Perry Food Pantry from looking like Old Mother Hubbard’s cupboard after a big surge in pantry customers Tuesday.
“We served 53 families on Tuesday at the Perry Food Pantry, a new one-day record for us,” said Perry Food Pantry Site Manager Lou Hoger. “This left our shelves a little less full than we like to see them. All our donations are deeply appreciated, of course, but these two were particularly well timed.”
Both donations had roots in the Christmas holidays. Vince Sturm and Alex Sturm, the father and son wealth managers at Generations Wealth Advisors in Perry, hosted a Christmas party for their clients in December and asked each partygoer to bring either a toy for the Toys For Tots program or a nonperishable food item for the Perry Food Pantry.
The cartload of food was delivered Wednesday by the Sturms and was gratefully received by Hoger.
In December the United Way of Central Iowa donated 250 holiday food bags to the PACES program at the Perry Elementary School. Some 240 bags were picked up by parents at the Perry Elementary School, but the remaining 10 were delivered to the pantry Friday by PCSD crew members Bob Wilson and Brendan Smith.
