Mike Wolanin | The Republic Greg Lewis, Columbus East Food Pantry coordinator, stages food for distribution from the Columbus East Food Pantry at Columbus East High School in Columbus, Ind., Friday, Nov. 20, 2020.
The Columbus East Food Pantry will have a community food distribution on Friday from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. for drive-up distribution of pre-bagged collections of food, with enough for approximately 200 families.
Due to strong demand, there is a limit to the number of collections of food per car to two.
Columbus Animal Services will be distributing limited amounts of pet food, and the Bartholomew County Public Library Book Express plans to be there as well. The Columbus East Food Pantry is available to the entire community and is not limited to BCSC families.
Pickup point is at door 31 in the west parking lot behind the school near the tennis courts. There will be community food distributions on April 22nd and May 20th.
The Columbus East Food Pantry is a Gleaners school-based food pantry.
