Loon Lake Food Bank & Resource Center

Rural food banks are seeing an increased need for food but a decrease in volunteers. Most volunteers are retired and therefore in an at risk population for COVID. Like all food banks, Loon Lake is seeing an increase in need and first time visitors with skyrocketing unemployment, the problem is being rural they are having a hard time increasing donations and getting food shipped out to their area.

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Thu., April 2, 2020

Michael Cantrell-Smith, 27, carries a load of food to a waiting patron as he volunteers with the Loon Lake Food Bank while Liz Bauer, left, manager of the Loon Lake Food Bank & Resource Center, sprays boxes down with a bleach-based sanitizing agent on Thursday, April 2, 2020, at Loon Lake Food Bank & Resource Center near Loon Lake, Wash.

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Christina Battles a food bank regular waits as Michael Cantrell-Smith, 27, carries a load of food to her truck as he volunteers with the Loon Lake Food Bank on Thursday, April 2, 2020, at Loon Lake Food Bank & Resource Center near Loon Lake, Wash.

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Michael Cantrell-Smith, 27, loads two bags of food in Christina Battles' truck as he volunteers with the Loon Lake Food Bank on Thursday, April 2, 2020, at Loon Lake Food Bank & Resource Center near Loon Lake, Wash.

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Michael Cantrell-Smith, left, and Liz Bauer manager of the Loon Lake Food Bank & Resource Center load boxes of food on Thursday, April 2, 2020, at Loon Lake Food Bank & Resource Center near Loon Lake, Wash.

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Liz Bauer, manager of the Loon Lake Food Bank & Resource Center smiles with her husband Mike during an interview on Thursday, April 2, 2020, at Loon Lake Food Bank & Resource Center near Loon Lake, Wash.

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Liz Bauer, manager of the Loon Lake Food Bank & Resource Center, sprays boxes down with a bleach-based sanitizing agent on Thursday, April 2, 2020, at Loon Lake Food Bank & Resource Center near Loon Lake, Wash.

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Food bank volunteer Liz Bauer fills boxes with food on Thursday, April 2, 2020, at Loon Lake Food Bank & Resource Center near Loon Lake, Wash.

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Michael Cantrell-Smith, 27, carries a load of food to a waiting patron as he volunteers with the Loon Lake Food Bank on Thursday, April 2, 2020, at Loon Lake Food Bank & Resource Center near Loon Lake, Wash.

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Liz Bauer, manager of the Loon Lake Food Bank & Resource Center, chats with a patron on Thursday, April 2, 2020, at Loon Lake Food Bank & Resource Center near Loon Lake, Wash.

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David Hakes, service and equipment manager with the Loon Lake Food Bank carries food to a waiting car on Thursday, April 2, 2020, Loon Lake Food Bank & Resource Center near Loon Lake, Wash.

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