Mormon Church delivers 40,000 pounds of food to SLO County
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints delivered 40,000 pounds of food to San Luis Obispo County on Thursday morning, just in time for Thanksgiving.
About 30 volunteers gathered at the church’s Paso Robles meeting house to unload 24 pallets of dry and canned food, according to a news release.
The food was delivered by the Mormon Church’s Salt Lake City, Utah headquarters, the news release said.
At least nine organizations received the food: the El Camino Homeless Organization, the Cal Poly Food Pantry, the Paso Robles Unified School District, Resilient Souls, Lumina Alliance, People’s Self-Help Housing, the Salvation Army, Mission San Miguel and the Paso Robles Housing Authority, the news release said.
The Mormon Church also donated separately to the SLO Food Bank, as well as the communities of Moorpark and Santa Maria.
This isn’t the first time the Mormon Church made a large local donation.
Last year, the church donated 7.2 million pounds of food to the counties of San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, Ventura and Los Angeles, the news release said.
