Food pantry really gets moving

In the early days of the Saukville Food Pantry, Director Mark Gierach remembers picking up food in his 2005 Dodge minivan.

“Everything we hauled from Feeding America and any other place was done with my personal van, including sometimes stuffing it with up to 2,000 pounds of food and hauling it back out here,” he said.

But after receiving a $60,000 grant from Feeding America Eastern Wisconsin, the food pantry purchased a 26-foot box truck that will greatly improve the pantry’s ease of operations.

“It’s a big step up,” Gierach said.