Final E-Town mobile food pantry event of the year this Saturday

The City of Elizabethtown will host its final mobile food pantry event of the year Saturday at Freeman Lake Park.

According to a post on the city’s Facebook page, area residents in need of food should enter through the Freeman Lake Park Road entrance, which is the park entrance closest to Planet Fitness. The food distribution event will begin at 9 a.m. Saturday and continue until noon or until supplies run out.

The three mobile food pantry events the city organized are part of a $50,000 commitment the city made in partnership with Feeding America, Kentucky’s Heartland.

“At the last two distributions, we handed out food to a thousand households in each distribution,” said Elizabethtown City Council Member Julia Springsteen during Monday’s city council meeting. “We’ll have food for another thousand households this Saturday. We’ll have it similar to what we’ve handed out the last two weeks, but there will also be a protein box this time. Usually there’s a bag of chicken breast and some other things in there, so it will be a little extra in this distribution this week to hopefully help people have a better Thanksgiving.”

Volunteers will be on site Saturday to guide participants once they enter the park.