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MADERA COUNTY, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - The Madera County Food Bank present has a caller home. A ribbon-cutting ceremonial was held to observe the opening of the caller determination connected Knox Road successful Madera.
"We're conscionable truthful excited to person it open," said Andy Medellin, erstwhile politician of Madera and task manager for the Food Bank. "I emotion Madera and what we're doing present successful Madera and this imaginativeness has present travel to fruition."
Medellin said they look guardant to helping the residents successful need.
"To person a 20,000 positive quadrate ft gathering that volition provender the needs and the residents of Madera region is conscionable heartwarming to me," helium said.
The Madera County Food Bank is simply a nonprofit enactment with 60 organisation sites passim the region that tin provender up to 30,000 radical and administer much than 300,000 lbs of nutrient per month.
"I mean, it's been a portion coming, and hopefully it's going to assistance a batch much radical that we, you know, than we person before," said Jesus Escanuela, warehouse manager for the facility. "I'm conscionable gladsome that we're capable to assistance everybody that we can, you know, and the need's there, you know, they person the need, evidently telephone and we'll capable it for sure."
Funding for the task was made imaginable by a $500,000 assistance from Madera County's American Rescue Plan Act oregon ARPA funding.
