Extreme cold temperatures did not stop members of a dedicated team from sharing their time and love with Moorhead families on Saturday morning at the local fire station.
Nearly 350 emergency food boxes, water and 150 thermal blankets were shared at the giveaway, along with 100 bowls of hot vegetable soup.
Delta Advantage Center, Moorhead city officials and workers, Sunflower-Humphreys Counties Progress Inc. and Mississippi Food Network sponsored this event.
Delta Advantage Center’s chief of staff, Thelma Holland Green, coordinated the distribution of the emergency food boxes, water and blankets. The Mississippi Food Network donated items.
Green thanked all the volunteers for joining the effort to distribute the needed supplies and food. She also thanked the fire department for giving her the space and the fire department workers. She also thanked Councilwoman Annette Fields and SHCPI.
Fields shared that Moorhead Mayor George Holland opened the community room as a warming station for citizens without heat last Sunday.
Fields said that Sunflower-Humphreys Counties Progress Inc. CEO Director Monica Hope ensured that Moorhead and the surrounding communities received hot food. Moorhead received nearly 100 meals of hot chicken noodle soup and cornbread. After learning from Holland last Friday that residents were still without power after the recent ice storm, Hope supplied 50 bowls of hot vegetable soup. Saturday, the kindness continued with the sharing of 100 bowls of soup with residents.
