More than 185,000 meals packaged

Gargantuan, “of immense size, extent or quantity; of exceedingly great scope or nature,” as in a gargantuan effort: that’s an apt description of what took place last Friday and Saturday at the Our Saviour’s Lutheran Church Fellowship Hall. Over 900 local volunteers packed more than 185,000 meals for the hungry, all part of the Meals from the Heartland meal-raising effort coordinated by the Humboldt County Ministerial Association and the Team 4 Hungry Committee which works and supervises to make sure the assembly line production process works to a tee. Former Meals Executive Director David Bradley said Humboldt is the largest event outside of a statewide meal raising in Des Moines. Find out why in this week's issue. Subscribe to the Humboldt Independent for all the latest news. It's as easy as clicking on the link at the top of this page.