My journey takes me to Redwood Baptist Church home over the past 10 years to its Good Neighbors Summer reading program and a distribution point for the San Marcos Consolidated ISD's Summer Nutrition Program led by Mike Boone. The Pandemic changed things this year.
There have been many articles appearing in print and on television about children without sufficient food due to the closing of schools which canceled Child Nutrition USDA supplemental food programs. The concern was immediate from March onward. Americans care about our children; and many parents affective by loss of income were worried. One journalist for The New York Times made a cross-country trip in her RV to verify and record the truth behind the worry.
Locally, automobiles lined up at curbside distribution points, including Redwood Baptist Church. Parents drove up parallel to a table at the church’s outdoor pavilion where volunteers Michael Johnson and Phil Walker practiced social distancing by sliding a tray with the correct number of bagged meals through the car window. During the period from March 23 to Sept. 30 a total of 25,463 breakfast and lunch meals were served.
