Rainbow Foods Careers

The box packing procedure followed the long-standing tradition of circling the warehouse with shopping carts and filling the boxes with the prescribed items that were lined up along the periphery.New volunteers teamed up with veterans to learn the process.

Packing the boxes can be a challenge because everything must fit so that the box lid will close flat for final taping. There was a genial air of competitiveness among some of the teams to see who could create the most perfect packing job.

Tony and Kathie were quite certain that they had come up with a winner.

After the boxes were filled, each set received a set of labels designating the ultimate recipient. Alaine Merz fulfilled her traditional role of seeing that the labels were distributed properly.And finally each box was taped shut and the label affixed to the outside.As the store of food items is depleted, the cartons and boxes in which they came had to be broken down for recycling. Ellsworth Corum seems to be having a challenging time with this carton but ultimately won out.ANE has always provided donuts to help fuel the volunteers efforts on food packing days. This year Ellsworth generously spent the early morning hours making individual small quiches for the volunteers. Cheryl enjoys one of his delicious creations.To help preserve a record of the event Juanita shot some video footage with her tablet computer.Even though the overall process described thus far is fairly consistent from one food packing day to the next, each of these events is also unique. The makeup of volunteers is what contributes to a special atmosphere for each of these days, and yesterday was no exception. Shortly after we began loading boxes, a large group of new volunteers started to file into the warehouse. It became quickly obvious that there was a unique degree of diversity among these people.