Yolo County’s Mobile Food Bank in Dunningan
By Ray Etta Johnson, NPT Reporter
601847-9501-00: IFS: June 15, 2011, 12:00PM
©2011 SDC/Dunningan News-Press Telegram
DUNNINGAN, CA (IFS) – Yolo County’s Mobile food bank rolled into Dunningan this morning to a very small line of residents in the waiting wings of the registration and distribution center. According to some locals that frequent the food bank tells NPT that these lines have been getting smaller at each food bank distribution scheduled dates for Dunningan.
This may not be such of a measurement, chances are this also reflexes on the amount of goods and services for each individual in Northern Yolo County is maintaining with reduced assistance from the food banks.
The food bank general rules are as follows: One “Box” per family per address. You must register with the distribution center and please bring several large boxes. This Yolo County Mobile Distribution unit comes to Dunningan twice a month with the next delivery on/or about July 1st.
The Yolo County Distribution Point Directors runs a very tight ship. Everything is done by the book. No exceptions. In the hot sun, the very cold of winter, these brave persons with the right tools, delivering on a strict schedule with total respect and kindness and a real love for what they do.
An operation this size only means heavy duty equipment. Large insolated Diesel trucks, with electric pallet jacks that move and reposition large items weighing hundreds of pounds. These units assist these fine and eager employees and volunteers that move these goods to these locations for the consumer to reach for and place in his or her basket.
BRT Institute of America’s studies of the general condition of the people at these distributions were not dressed as this writer. Generally, this writer dress like a retired bum for which this writer is and than some. However, my fellow neighbors are dressed very nice and their vehicles are not old and in disrepair as mine.
Their mood is somewhat somber and un-rushed.
The children with the young mothers have rosy cheeks and full of energy. Very happy they are. You see it in their eyes and you feel it radiating around you. General observation places approximately 60% of my neighbors have some kind of cellular device. Approximately three percent of them have a “Bluetooth” device in the ears all the time.
Our seniors, for whom I am one, find the same conditions. The seniors are very happy and not complaining about one thing. This time, I expect too here an earful about what the President is during or what congressman is flashing his private parts around the planet, something. . .
No?
Nothing?
Not here at this time. I don’t hear, the words, “thank you so much. This is the first meal I have had in a week or month. Ah, but maybe the hot sun so early in the morning.
Their eyes and faces show no abuse in their faces, no blood shout eyes. No tattered clothes, only mine. These neighbors are well dressed and cared for. Dare I say Happy? No signs of starvation or real poverty among my fellow citizens.
The qualities of the food goods distributed are of the highest brands and the quantity is ample.
The rice foods are coming from Arkansas’ Rice Valley to the Dunningan area. Majority of the rice grown here is being shipped to Japan in mass quantities from the Northern Yolo/ Colusa Counties’ area. Japan’s domestic “royal” rice crops that were locally produced near the atomic reactors did post as much as $40(US) per pound in the retail stores in the pass. The “next” most used rice comes from Yolo County with approximately 39.5% going to Japan daily. With our exports, the average Nipponese citizen there is now paying around $2.50(US) per pound at the retailers. Great deal for their pockets.
With my fellow travelers, we still find our county a very speculator place to live, and indeed, it really is fields of golden grains, trees of nuts, berries, grapes, onions, apples, almond and orange trees everywhere.
