An East Side community food distribution site at the Resource Council of WNY served an average of 1,100 people a day in the weeks after the May 14 mass shooting.
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A National Grid volunteer brings bags of apples to volunteers packaging food into bags to hand out at the Resource Council of WNY food distribution site in June.
Paula Coleman walks the quarter mile from her "senior apartment" building at 1500 Jefferson Ave. to the free food distribution site at the Resource Council of WNY several times a week to pick up food for herself and some other seniors in the building who can't get out.
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Volunteers from the Girl Scouts and National Grid helped package and give out food and personal items at the East Side community food distribution site at 347 E. Ferry St. on Thursday.
The free food distribution site at the Resource Council of WNY parking lot on East Ferry Street was busy all day Thursday, even though residents were unaware the service would scale back to three days a week after Memorial Day. The Resource Council said an average of 1,100 people a day have been coming to the site daily for food and community after their supermarket was shut down by a racist mass shooting that killed 10 and injured three on May 14.
“It’s one thing seeing everything on social media and hearing what’s been going on, but to actually be here and see the flowers from victim’s families and to see the site where this happened, it just hits you completely differently,” said Bills tight end Dawson Knox.
An East Side community food distribution site at the Resource Council of WNY served an average of 1,100 people a day in the weeks after the May 14 mass shooting.
Volunteers from the Girl Scouts and National Grid helped package and give out food and personal items at the East Side community food distribution site at 347 E. Ferry St. on Thursday.
A National Grid volunteer brings bags of apples to volunteers packaging food into bags to hand out at the Resource Council of WNY food distribution site in June.
