The Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank is holding its first drive-up emergency food distribution event in Butler.
Food will distributed Tuesday from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Butler’s Alameda Park. The event is part of the Food Bank’s new drive-up distribution model to reduce the spread of covid-19.
Each vehicle will receive two boxes of food with the Food Bank prepared to serve up to 1,000 vehicles, said Melissa Murray, a spokesperson for the Food Bank.
“We just have not been able to set-up a larger distribution in Butler until now,” said Murray. “We need to coordinate with law enforcement for traffic control and then find a site that’s willing to host us and then get volunteers to sign up and figure out a map of how traffic can come through the area.”
All traffic at Tuesday’s event will enter Alameda Park via Pool Drive. The Butler County Sherriff’s Office will be on site to direct traffic.
Meanwhile, for the third consecutive Monday, a drive-up emergency food distribution event was held across from the Food Bank’s headquarters in Duquesne from noon to 3 p.m. The Food Bank was expecting to serve another 1,000 vehicles.
