Semi-Trailers of food sent to flood stricken counties

Due to severe flooding in the Santa Cruz and Monterey areas, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints sent three semi-trailers of food to the stricken areas in Santa Cruz and Monterey counties.

On Tuesday, Jan 24th, the Second Harvest Food Bank in Watsonville received two 53 foot semi-trailers with a total of 48 pallets of emergency food shipment from the church's Salt Lake storehouses, with peanut butter, strawberry jam, spaghetti and rice. An additional trailer of dairy products will arrive later. Amazingly, the shipment arrived on National Peanut Butter Day.

Emily Freed, Supply Chain Director of Second Harvest and Brandan Miele, Chief Operating Officer were thrilled at the shipment which will assist those affected by the floods, as well as others with food needs in the county. Local leaders of the church in Santa Cruz, Matt Hackwell (stake president) and Michael Tree (JustServe director) were on hand as the shipments were opened.

On the same day, another shipment of 24 pallets of cheese and butter were received by the Food Bank for Monterey County. Melissa Hendricks, CEO of the food bank wrote, "... thank you, your timing is perfect as we have been doing emergency food distributions due to the extensive flooding in our county. With tremendous gratitude..."