Pop-Up Food Pantry Expects To Feed Hundreds in Aurora

Aurora IL

07 May, 2021

3:00 PM

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AURORA, IL—Aurora's traveling food pantry will host a pop-up, drive-thru event on May 15, giving away food to 200 families. The event, which lasts from 10 a.m. to noon, will take place at Fischer Middle School, 1305 Long Grove Dr., Aurora. Area residents are invited. Admission is free. Identification is not required. Items to be distributed include granola bars, fruits and vegetables, peanut butter, pasta, pasta sauce, eggs, ground beef, cereal, applesauce, apple juice and box dinners. Pantry volunteers, observing pandemic safety procedures, will load $100 bags of groceries into patrons' vehicles without them ever having to leave the car. The event is Interfaith's ninth biweekly mobile pantry since January. Prior drive-thru events were held in Aurora, Oswego, Montgomery, Plano and Crest Hill. Interfaith partners with Fox Valley Park District, Calvary Church of Naperville and Blessings in a Backpack of Chicago to provide free groceries to local families at the pop-ups. About 10 volunteers, including Calvary congregants and food pantry personnel, assist at the pantries. Call (630) 692-3061 or visit aurorafoodpantry.org for more information.