Community Action of DeWitt County is ready to unveil their new food pantry program that will help serve hundreds in the community.
Executive Director of Community Action, Alison Rumler-Gomez indicates the new program is thanks to the William Davenport Estate donation of $100-thousand. She explains that is going to be enough to sustain the program for a long time.
Rumler-Gomez explains there will be three levels of service for the new program. It starts with a basic emergency need but the big component of the program will be a co-op approach for the community.
A program in Bloomington, The Daily Loaf, is what Community Action is modeling their program after. She indicates some concerns of hers were put to ease when that program exceeded their expectations after they launched it.
Rumler-Gomez says with the proposed cuts from the state and federal governments possible, it makes a program like the one proposed all the more important.
