East County Food Pantry – Saturdays from 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM at Smith Memorial Presbyterian Church – 2420 NE Fairview, Ave; Fairview, OR 97024
To all our supporters, the Super Bowl is this weekend. It is good to be reminded of the “Souper Bowl of Caring.”
This is a nationwide effort. It encourages everyone who watches the Super Bowl to remember those in need. People are encouraged to give at least $1 to their local food pantry or soup kitchen.
We are fortunate to be an approved “Souper Bowl of Caring” site. Our goal this year is to raise $1,000.
You can contribute at the following link: Souper Bowl of Caring
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Latest Posts
- East County Food Pantry is open this Saturday February 7th
Hello everyone, Our food pantry will be open this Saturday, February 7th, offering our normal client-choice shopping experience. We look ahead to seeing you there! Please note, we no longer offer a drive-thru choice. All clients will shop in the pantry. Here are the key details and schedule for Saturday: Location & Parking: Schedule & Times: Thought for… - 2026 Souper Bowl of Caring
- East County Food Pantry is open this Saturday January 31st
Hello everyone, Our food pantry will be open this Saturday, January 31st, offering our normal client-choice shopping experience. We look ahead to seeing you there! Please note, we no longer offer a drive-thru choice. All clients will shop in the pantry. Here are the key details and schedule for Saturday: Location & Parking: Schedule & Times: Thought for…
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NOTICE ABOUT OUR HOURS OF OPERATION
The food pantry officially opens at 10:30 am for shopping. Our parking lot opens at 9:45 am. PLEASE ONLY PARK IN DESIGNATED SPOTS AND DO NOT BLOCK THE TRAFFIC PATH. Announcements start at 10:00 am, Registration starts at 10:15, and Shopping begins at 10:30 am.
We have been trying to tell people not to show up until 10:00 AM. But many people have come very early. (When people come early, it can get in the way of all the things that we need to do to set up).
We now enforce people to not show up until after 9:45 am. We block off the entrance to the driveway and tell people to come back after 9:45 am.
Please do not line up on the street.
In order to discourage people from coming before we open registration at 10:15 a.m., we are expanding our random lottery system for the first 35 households. After the 35th household, we will distribute the numbers 36 and up in order as people arrive.
Winter Weather
If it looks like we will have winter weather of ice, sleet, snow, freezing rain or temperatures below 25 degrees, we will do one of 2 things depending upon the severity of the weather:
- Do a drive through like we did February 1st with pre-packed bags of dry goods and produce, or
- Close the pantry that Saturday.
You can check the weekly post on our website, http://www.eastcountyfoodpantry.org, on Thursdays after 5pm to see if we will do a drive-through or be closed on the following Saturday.
Volunteer
We need your help at the East County Food Pantry!
We exist with the help of volunteers.
Please consider being a volunteer on Friday mornings from 9:30am- Noon and/or Saturday mornings from 9am – 11:00am or 10:30am-1:00pm.
We feed around 3,000 people per month but we cannot do it without your help.
If you come to the Food Pantry for food, you can still shop and be a volunteer too!
Please sign up today by visiting the link to our Volunteer Registration form. Just click on the following link to get started!
Volunteers Honored!
Our food pantry was selected to receive the Bonita Jenkins Outstanding Volunteer of the Year Award for contributions to the Fairview community in 2022. This award is given to groups who have demonstrated exceptional service and volunteerism by helping the city with a special project or on-going activity; demonstrated exemplary leadership, creativity, cooperation, and hard work in their service to the city; and their service has made a significant contribution to the community of Fairview.
The East County Food Pantry Volunteers were honored with the Bonita Jenkins Outstanding Volunteers award by the Fairview City Council for their hard work and many hours feeding families through the East County Food Pantry each week.
The East County Food Pantry averages between 240-260 households per week providing food.
The award was given on Thursday, April 20th, 2023 at a special event held in the the Fairview Food Plaza – THE FORK Food Truck gathering building by the big fork in Fairview.
Every food truck contributed to the wonderful buffet dinner.
Nondiscrimination Statement
In accordance with federal civil rights law and U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) civil rights regulations and policies, this food pantry is prohibited from discriminating on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex (including gender identity and sexual orientation), disability, age, or reprisal or retaliation for prior civil rights activity.
Program information may be made available in languages other than English. Persons with disabilities who require alternative means of communication to obtain program information (e.g., Braille, large print, audiotape, American Sign Language), should contact the responsible state or local agency that administers the program or USDA’s TARGET Center at (202) 720-2600 (voice and TTY) or contact USDA through the Federal Relay Service at (800) 877-8339.
To file a program discrimination complaint, a Complainant should complete a Form AD-3027, USDA Program Discrimination Complaint Form which can be obtained online at: https://www.usda.gov/sites/default/files/documents/USDA-OASCR%20P-Complaint-Form-0508-0002-508-11-28-17Fax2Mail.pdf, from any USDA office, by calling (866) 632-9992, or by writing a letter addressed to USDA. The letter must contain the complainant’s name, address, telephone number, and a written description of the alleged discriminatory action in sufficient detail to inform the Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights (ASCR) about the nature and date of an alleged civil rights violation. The completed AD-3027 form or letter must be submitted to USDA by:
- mail:
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Office of the Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights
1400 Independence Avenue, SW
Washington, D.C. 20250-9410; or - fax:
(833) 256-1665 or (202) 690-7442; or - email:
program.intake@usda.gov
This institution is an equal opportunity provider.
Our Mission Statement
The East County Food Pantry at Smith Memorial Presbyterian Church is a group of volunteers and public servants dedicated to providing free food resources to anyone in need while building positive relationships among the community in such a way that fosters collaboration, health, dignity, and love.