Fair Foods - Refrigerated Truck Donation by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints

 Fair Foods Website

For the past 32 years, Fair Foods has provided healthy produce to low income families in the Boston Area. Our unique $2 Bag Program goes beyond emergency hunger relief, strengthening your dollar to make a healthy diet of fresh fruits and vegetables affordable.

President White (Boston Stake) and Nancy Jamison - Founder and Executive Director of Fair Foods

Fair Foods began in 1988 when Dorchester resident Nancy Jamison saw a truck full of carrots being driven to the dump. She told some neighbors that perfectly good surplus food was being thrown away, so they rounded up some trucks and started picking it up. There was enough free food for everyone to share with families, friends and neighbors, and Fair Foods was born.

With our network of trucks and volunteers we rescue as much as five million pounds of produce annually, distributing it to over eighty sites and organizations in Massachusetts and southern New Hampshire. No matter how much we grow, we will still remain community-operated, staffed by a network of hundreds of community volunteers including people like you.

Chris (Fair Foods truck volunteer driver), Elder and Sister Parker, Debra Ramsay (Boston Stake facilitator for this donation), Chris George (WSRS regional manager - our boss),  Fair Foods administrator and founder Nancy Jamison.  In this picture, Nancy is thanking us for the great help our young missionaries give in helping to distribute the food delivered by Fair Foods throughout the greater Boston area. 

Here comes the truck.  It was a little late due to being tied up behind a freeway accident.

Elder and Sister Klenholz drove a new truck to Chicago, IL, and then brought the used refrigerated truck from Chicago to Boston to donate. They are missionaries at the Bishops' Storehouse near Seattle, WA where they have served for the past 10 years.

One of the managers of Fair Foods checked out her truck.

Sister and Elder Klenholz and Debra Ramsay, past Boston Stake Relief Society President, who arranged this donation through our manager, Chris George, the WSRS regional manager.

Fair Foods staff and volunteers with church representatives in front of the truck.  This donation will greatly increase their ability to receive and deliver food.  They didn't have a refrigerated truck which is required to receive from some of their food donators (Amazon).  This helped them meet this requirement.

Debra Ramsey and Sister Parker watched the loading of a food truck.

The Bishops' Storehouse truck has over 190,000 miles and the Church would normally sell and replace it.  This donation was arranged through the Boston Stake and Welfare and Self-Reliance Services.

Putting me to work removing the church logo, Fair Foods director and driver wanted us to leave "Bishop" if we could.  So they named the truck "Bishop".

You can remove almost anything with a razor blade and WD 40.

Sister Parker visited with a number of volunteers, all of who were greatly appreciative of this donation. 

It's all over except to take the Klenholzs' to the airport.  This was a great project to see in action.