Thieves swipe would-be Thanksgiving meals from food bank
SEATTLE -- Just as donations from Wednesday's Problem Solvers Food Drive began rolling in, one local food bank discovered thieves had cleared them out.
Thieves snipped a storage container lock at the Rainier Valley food bank and loaded their truck with 30 crates of food.
"It's just heartbreaking," said food bank director Sam Osbourne.
The thieves struck just days before hundreds of people are expected visit the bank to stock up for their Thanksgiving meals.
"It would have been filled with corn, peas, chicken broth," Osbourne said.
The food bank receives most of its donations from Food Lifeline and Northwest Harvest.
And on Wednesday, generous hearts around the regions donated crates of food in memory of Brenden Foster , the 11-year-old boy whose dying wish was to feed the hungry.
The drive raised more than $46,000 in donations and more than 100,000 pounds in food.
On Thursday crews unloaded your donations in warehouses, where it will be sorted and distributed in time for the holiday.
"That's a remarkable amount of hope to be able to put on the table," said Linda Nageotte of Food Lifeline. "Everything you see here came in the last two hours."
That generosity continued to pour in on Thursday as community members reached out to the Rainier Valley food bank with checks and food to try to replace what the thieves stole.
If you weren't able to swing by the food drive on Wednesday, you can still donate online.
Thieves snipped a storage container lock at the Rainier Valley food bank and loaded their truck with 30 crates of food.
"It's just heartbreaking," said food bank director Sam Osbourne.
The thieves struck just days before hundreds of people are expected visit the bank to stock up for their Thanksgiving meals.
"It would have been filled with corn, peas, chicken broth," Osbourne said.
The food bank receives most of its donations from Food Lifeline and Northwest Harvest.
And on Wednesday, generous hearts around the regions donated crates of food in memory of Brenden Foster , the 11-year-old boy whose dying wish was to feed the hungry.
The drive raised more than $46,000 in donations and more than 100,000 pounds in food.
On Thursday crews unloaded your donations in warehouses, where it will be sorted and distributed in time for the holiday.
"That's a remarkable amount of hope to be able to put on the table," said Linda Nageotte of Food Lifeline. "Everything you see here came in the last two hours."
That generosity continued to pour in on Thursday as community members reached out to the Rainier Valley food bank with checks and food to try to replace what the thieves stole.
If you weren't able to swing by the food drive on Wednesday, you can still donate online.