{"id":9009,"date":"2024-05-29T09:48:42","date_gmt":"2024-05-29T13:48:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/northern-virginia\/?p=9009"},"modified":"2024-05-29T09:48:42","modified_gmt":"2024-05-29T13:48:42","slug":"food-and-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/northern-virginia\/2024\/05\/29\/food-and-fun\/","title":{"rendered":"Food and Fun!"},"content":{"rendered":"
Our final food-packing of the school year was another fun and impactful event.\u00a0 With 60 volunteers helping, we packed 1,720 bags of nonperishable food and delivered them to 6 schools in Fairfax and Prince William counties.\u00a0\u00a0We also provided some emergency grocery gift cards to those six schools and a supply of grocery cards to a seventh school.<\/div>\n
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Our members were joined by volunteers from Dominion Energy, our long-time partner in this effort, as well as friends from Didlake and RBH Global Wealth.\u00a0\u00a0Joining us for the first time were Sia Floyd, President & CEO of Antean Technology, Sean Floyd, and Kumba Gbakima.\u00a0\u00a0Besides helping with the packing, Antean has pledged financial support for our chapter, which we greatly appreciate.\u00a0\u00a0After the food packing, Ms. Floyd commented on what a well-oiled and organized operation the packing was.\u00a0\u00a0We agree!\u00a0\u00a0In this our 12th<\/sup>\u00a0year of partnering with Dominion for our Weekend Food for Kids program, the Weekend Food Team has the logistics of this operation down to a science. The smooth operations were enhanced by music that our DJ played so we could pack to the beat, and maybe sing along, to a variety of oldies and show tunes.<\/p>\n

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Videographer Bob Kovacs has produced a time-lapse video of a recent food packing.\u00a0\u00a0He condensed into a 1-minute video the entire 2-hour packing process, starting with members opening all the packages and placing them at each packing station in the 3 assembly lines, and ending with all the bags packed and moved outside to the trucks for delivery.\u00a0\u00a0Although the background music helps quicken the pace, we\u2019re not that fast.\u00a0 Check out the video below!<\/p>\n