Thrift shop collecting food during Main Street Trick or Treat

Dear editor:

I am writing on behalf of the Community Outreach thrift shop board, employees and volunteers. 

As we all know, the cost of groceries and just about everything else continually goes up faster than our incomes. Our food pantry relies mainly on grants, personal checks and cash donations from our generous donors and we have received checks from the First Lady’s Hunger Initiative. 

Our main focus for many years, though, has been local organizations sponsoring drives for canned goods and non-perishable food items which went a long way in keeping our shelves stocked. We appreciate each and every donation. We are at the end of our grant money and are pursuing that option and just recently we have been blessed with some very generous food donations from local school classes and church organizations, but we still have a way to go.  

We’d like to try something new his year — Friday at the annual Halloween Main Street Trick or Treat in Greybull, in front of the thrift shop at our usual candy table, we are going to have donation boxes for the food pantry. 

The kids still get their treats (along with some of you big kids, too) and our pantry also gets a much needed a boost. So please, when you bring your families from 4-6 p.m. on Halloween, stick a can of veggies or a shelf stable item in your pocket to drop in the decorated boxes we will have available at our table. You will also be showing your family a valuable lesson in giving and community service. 

We appreciate so much your generosity of food and money you bless us with. It allows us to keep providing the food baskets for those who just need a little helping hand.

A huge thank you to all of you and hope to see you on Halloween,

Kay Mattis 

board member and volunteer

Community Outreach thift shop