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Helping Hands tells Sedro‑Woolley council it secured property, expands mobile food services
Summary
Rebecca Scribe of Helping Hands Food Bank told the Sedro‑Woolley City Council that the nonprofit has the deed to a new property, has distributed large quantities of food since 2020, and is planning a $550,000 mobile food‑bank truck and outreach vehicle to serve outlying communities and veterans.
Rebecca Scribe, the director of Helping Hands Food Bank, told the Sedro‑Woolley City Council on March 11 that the organization has finalized a property purchase and is expanding its outreach with new vehicles and programs.
Scribe said Helping Hands received the deed to the property this week and has moved what she described as “25,000,000 pounds of food through that building since 08/01/2020,” a volume she compared visually to “56 semi trucks lined up.” She said the organization raised about $2 million locally in 2025 and received state and county support for earlier operations, including roughly $325,000 in unused Department of Commerce funds that paid…
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