'An ongoing issue': Local leader addresses food insecurity in rural town

OTHELLO, Wash. – Thursday at 8 a.m., people were lined up at the Othello Christian Church, waiting for Second Harvest and Othello Food Bank to set up and distribute free food to the small rural community.

It wouldn’t be for another two hours, however, that they would see the food banks pull in to set up.

Second Harvest – a nonprofit that supplies a network of partner food banks in 21 counties in eastern Washington and five counties in North Idaho – has been traveling to Othello and partnering with Othello Food Bank, as well as other volunteers in the area, to distribute free produce.

And with a line of cars wrapped around the church where they set up, it was clear food insecurity is a challenge for many in the rural town.

https://washingtonstatestandard.com/2024/09/03/an-ongoing-issue-local-leader-addresses-food-insecurity-in-rural-town/