News and Events
Annual Scout Food Drive
October is the Annual Scout Drive for us. There are many boy and girl scouts and adult leaders that canvas the town first to deliver bags to your homes and then to collect the bags and bring them to us. This time it was wet and rainy but that didn’t deter them. There were some…
Read MoreTraffic Stop
On June 5, friendly volunteers staffed a traffic stop fundraiser at the corner of Nile Kinnick Drive and Main Street in Adel. Traffic was heavy due to the Sheriff’s Car Show around the Square and the Pantry netted over $4,000 from generous drivers who pitched coins and bills into the volunteers’ buckets! Also in June the…
Read MoreRescued Food and the Food Pantry
Here at Good Samaritan Food Pantry, every week we rescue hundreds of pounds of perishable food from a variety of retailers in the western suburbs of the Des Moines metro. These food items are still fresh and edible, and are available to all our patrons every week on both Monday and Tuesday. We are so thankful for…
Read MoreBackpack Meals Program
The Good Samaritan Food Pantry sponsors a program called Backpack Meals. Backpack meals provide meals to students in grade K-12 that are food insecure on the weekends. Without anyone knowing, school personnel quietly puts the meals into the Backpacks of each child K-5. At the 6-12 level, students stop by a designated area to put…
Read MoreOn Line Gifts So Important
During 2020, on-line donations to Good Samaritan reached over $5,000, the highest ever since we began accepting on-line contributions! No matter what size of financial gift you make, every dollar is important and is used to support the Pantry’s activities, purchase food to fill in what is not donated, and help sustain the future of Good…
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