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January 25, 2021

Truck Offer from Food For Lane County

By Courtney Wright

Image for example only, this is not the truck

Regional Food Bank Partner, Food For Lane County in Eugene, has a 2005 Isuzu NPR available for purchase.

Mileage is near 200,000
Diesel engine with 16 foot refrigerated box
Steel lift gate

Known issues - please take note! In Brad's words, "For the record, its an old and tired truck, but there is some life left in it."

Overhead door on box has several failing rollers that need to be serviced / replaced.
Front right low beam…

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January 25, 2021

Plastic Crate Purchase Offer

By Courtney Wright

OFB partner vendor TranPak has used plastic crates available for purchase for $5 for a limited time. Dimensions are 24x16x4.5”. Visit link below for a spec sheet.

Interested in learning more?
Contact Stacy Diaz
Phone: (800) 827-2474
Email: sdiaz@tranpak.com

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January 19, 2021

Intróducción a la Sesión Legislativa

By Courtney Wright

Document Title

29 de Enero 2021

1:00-3:00 pm

Únase a nosotros para familiarizarse sobre la importancia de

la sesión legislativa y de cómo puede participar!

Join Zoom Meeting

ID: 81837559890

Password: 169896

‪(US) +1 253-215-8782‬

Passcode: 169896

Questions? Contact: Martha Muñoz | mmunoz@oregonfoodbank.org | 503 267 5899

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January 19, 2021

Meet Our Newest Team Member!

By Courtney Wright

Meet Diana, our Metro Services Program Assistant

Hello Partners! My name is Diana Powers and I use she/her/hers pronouns. I am the new Metro Services Program Assistant at Oregon Food Bank and I’m excited to meet all of the Partner Agencies that make this work possible!

I am from inner city Atlanta and grew up on a small community land trust that is a pocket of nature embedded in the middle of the urban center. Living in a strongly diverse city, my personal history is centered around creating unity amongst people facing challenges to foster…

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January 19, 2021

Food Flow Listening Session Recording

By Courtney Wright

Link to the Jan 11 Food Flow Listening Session

If you were unable to join us for our Food Flow Listening Session last week - there's still time! You can watch the presentation here. During this session we covered the food flow of our Network, what is coming in the future, hear about the supply chain changes we're seeing in the industry and much more! Members of the Operations Team joined the session to share how OFB plans to address the many shifts that we saw in 2020.

We've scheduled a monthly listening session through June, with a variety…

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January 11, 2021

Federal Hunger Policy Update

By Courtney Wright

Summary of the new COVID package and implications for hunger relief from our colleagues at Partners for a Hunger-Free Oregon

Email from Annie Kirschner, Executive Director of Partners for a Hunger-Free Oregon:

Friends and colleagues-

A lot has happened in DC (understatement of the new year)! I started writing this early in the week, before the president incited an insurrection by white nationalist on the halls of congress. And before the Georgia run-off election changed the make-up of congressional leadership and their 2021 priorities. But I'm sure you all have read thousands of words on both of those historic…

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January 4, 2021

COVID-19 & Vaccine Education African-American/ Black/ African community event

By Ally Meyer

REACHing Us: 411 on Vaccines, Flu, COVID19 & Resources

In collaboration with OHA, Multnomah County Public Health, and Department of County Human Services, District 2 is sponsoring an event in the African American/Black/African communities to bring COVID-19 awareness, safety and health education, Vaccination readiness conversations, Vaccination education/Q&A, and Resource sharing via a culturally affirming community engagement forum January 8, 2021.