Packing a nutritious punch
Attendees prepare sacks of fruits and vegetables for food bank during conference give-back event.
Volunteers at the CUNA Lending Council Conference played a role in teaching kids the importance of eating their fruits and vegetables during a give-back event Sunday.
About 20 conference attendees packed 2,054 bags of potatoes and Granny Smith apples into five-pound bags for the Orange County Food Bank’s Farm to Kids program.
The food bank goes into schools in low-income communities and teaches kids about nutrition and the importance of eating fresh fruits and vegetables. At the end of the program, kids receive a five-pound bag of produce.
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Mark Lowry, director of the Orange County Food Bank, tells the backstory behind the give-back opportunity.
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Volunteers pack the bags with potatoes.
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Each bag contained eight or nine Granny Smith apples.
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Volunteers work on selecting potatoes for the bags.
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Volunteers work to fill the bags with apples.
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Royce Ngiam, vice president of marketing at Partners Federal Credit Union—which serves employees of The Walt Disney Co.—places a completed bag in the storage box.
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