Libby Food Pantry faces temporary shutdown even as demand rises
Michael Estergard, a volunteer at the Libby Food Pantry, hefts bags of goods out the rear entrance of Asa Wood Elementary School on Feb. 8. (Derrick Perkins/The Western News)
Chloe Adamson, president of the Libby Food Pantry, points to a small portion of the organization's food stores. (Derrick Perkins/The Western News)
Sharon Williamson, a volunteer with the Libby Food Pantry, prepares items for outgoing bags of foodstuffs on Feb. 8. (Derrick Perkins/The Western News)
Sharon Williamson, a volunteer with the Libby Food Pantry, prepares items for outgoing bags of foodstuffs on Feb. 8. (Derrick Perkins/The Western News)
In a room cramped by shelves laden with dry goods, volunteers juke and jive around one another on a typical Tuesday morning as they fill paper bags with packaged foods.
From there, the reused grocery store bags head toward an unassuming rear entrance of the defunct Asa Wood Elementary School, where a second team of volunteers helps load them into the line of vehicles idling in the snow and ice covered parking lot...
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