May 23, 2013

USFS employees donate food for backpacks

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Mike Carillo and Matt Dare (not pictured) deliver food to Delta Opportunity School, where students fill 160 backpacks with food for the weekend.
Delta Opportunity School was thrilled last week when Matt Dare and Mike Carillo delivered a large amount of food for the Food for Thought program. The donations were the result of a food drive contest among the departments at the U.S. Forest Service before Christmas.

The winner was the engineering and minerals department. Staff members chose Food for Thought as the recipient of all the food donated.

The Delta Opportunity School students who provide 160 backpacks of weekend food each week to other students in Delta and Cedaredge schools are very grateful. "What made this especially meaningful is that the U.S. Forest Service contacted us! It is wonderful to receive without asking," said a DOS representative.

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