A city-wide food bank made up of the many organizations providing food for those in need will continue for the time being at the CLE grounds.
RFDA Executive Director Volker Kromm tells us it comes after they met to discuss their future plans for operations during the pandemic.
“There are a few food banks that just aren’t comfortable and they aren’t planning to open up the entire summer and looking at the fall for their opening, the RFDA will be involved in a larger way at a single site or multiple sites,” Kromm says.
Following the next two sessions May 15th and 29th, the RFDA says they’ll discuss again what organizations want to do going forward.
“Some food banks are ready for greater involvement, maybe sometime in June we can return to multiple sites, maybe north and south sides,” Kromm says.
Kromm says they’ll also be speaking with the City of Thunder Bay and the Thunder Bay District Health Unit about safety protocols before making any final decisions.
“When we do reopen we will be stocking shelves and re-training because quite frankly we’ll be looking at a new way of handling people coming to our food banks so we can keep everyone safe,” Kromm said.
The food hamper program offered on May 15th and 29th requires people to register ahead of time through 211.