The Fox C-6 School District will again team up with the St. Louis Area Foodbank to help provide meals for those in need.
Fox will hold a mobile market Tuesday, July 28, at the Fox C-6 Service Center, 849 Jeffco Blvd., in Arnold. The St. Louis Area Foodbank will supply boxes of food to be handed out at the drive-thru event.
The market is scheduled for 2-4 p.m.
However, Gail Jones, Fox’s director of nutrition services, said she wants to move the time back to later in the day to provide more access to the food. So, she advises people who plan to come to check Fox’s and the St. Louis Area Foodbank’s social media platforms for any possible updates.
Fox hosted another mobile market on June 30, when 51 families received 55 boxes of food, Jones said.
She said that equated to 189 people, including 81 who were younger than 18, receiving food at the event.
“I feel there are more families out there that were unable to get to it because of the time, which is why I am working to change it to a later time,” Jones said.
She said the food bank provided Fox with boxes that contained dairy products and produce as well as pork sausage patties.
Jones said each dairy box had sour cream, cottage cheese, cream cheese, French onion dip, two gallons of milk, two 12-ounce containers of chocolate milk and two 12-ounce containers of strawberry milk. She said the produce boxes had apples, oranges, sweet potatoes, onions, green leaf lettuce, tomatoes, blueberries and potatoes.
Depending on the size of the family, each one received one or two dairy boxes, a produce box and about 15 frozen sausage patties, she said.
“I’m glad we are able to offer this to the community, because I know it is needed out there,” Jones said. “There are hard economic times going on right now.”
Jones said 16 volunteers ran the mobile market. Those coming for food remained in their vehicles outside the front of the service center.
Jones said Fox had 52 boxes of food left over when the market ended, and those boxes were donated to the Arnold Food Pantry and Salvation Army’s food pantry. She said the Arnold Food Pantry, which is at 2024 Key West Drive, received 15 dairy and 15 produce boxes, and the Salvation Army’s Arnold Corps Community Center food pantry, 3750 Telegraph Road, received 15 produce and seven dairy boxes.