Today I said good bye to a bunch of great friends. For that last fifteen months I have been volunteering at the New Hampshire Food Bank here in Manchester. I have been working with some incredible people. Many of them are retired but some are doing community service for school and some are doing community service for the courts. However they got there, they are wonderful people and I will miss them. We have had a lot of laughs while sorting food for food pantries around the state. The Tuesday crowd which I will say good bye to tomorrow are all in their late 70's and 80's. Doris and Charlie are from Huntington, NY. We found out that we have mutual friends from our days on Long Island. They are both a hoot. The head guy for the volunteers is John Washburn. John is a retired accountant. He runs the volunteer room like his family. He knows everyone and everyone is welcome. He has the place running smoothly no matter how many volunteers show on a given day. He never complains and makes adjustments to the operations to keep the powers in the Food Bank happy. He is an amazing guy.
John was saying today that in the last year we have sorted over 6,000,000 lbs of food for New Hampshire families. That makes me feel good.
Bye Stan, Paul, Bob, Gloria, Pat, Preston, Doris, Charlie, John...and all the rest of you.
After tomorrow, I will be focusing on sorting and packing. aargh.
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