On Saturday morning January 29th, 21 ECC employees, students and family members volunteered their time for charity. They served a total of 52 ½ community service hours at the Northern Illinois Food Bank in St. Charles. The majority of the crew worked on sorting large food donation bins into smaller boxes. They pulled out unlabeled items as well as candy, household items, baby food, cleaning products, cereal and pet products. Everything else filled up donated banana boxes. This group filled almost 300 banana boxes worth of food and another 50 or so boxes of the assorted items. A few other ECC volunteers worked with the donated cereal. They sorted a variety of cereals into boxes of approximately 12 pounds each destined for homeless shelters. A couple more volunteers worked on sorting the cleaning products. They wiped down the bottles and packaged them by product. The last few ECC helpers worked on sorting and packaging ranch dressing. The dressing bottles were wiped down and packaged into roughly 20-pound boxes. The crew from ECC worked alongside almost 80 other volunteers that morning. One volunteer commented that the morning was a very humbling and rewarding experience. This facility is always in need of volunteers; on any day of the week and at many times of the day. Visit http://www.northernilfoodbank.org/ for more information.
