Ameren and employees work together for food pantry donation

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Ameren Illinois today presented FISH Food Pantry in Galesburg with a $4,200 check and two truck loads of food.Stacey Jones, Ameren’s Supervisor of Business Administration and Customer Service says initially corporate tasked the Galesburg Operating Center to find a food pantry in their area.

Jones says FISH was chosen because Galesburg is the largest town in her service territory.

Ameren provided a baseline grant of $2,500 but would donate another dollar for every item collected by employees in the span of a month.

Jones said Ameren employees in Galesburg were asked to either donate non-perishable food items or a monetary donation if they didn’t have time to shop.

“So we had a lot of both,” Jones says. “We had a lot of monetary donations and canned good donations made to us so it was truly an effort of all our employees at our operating center.”

FISH President Diane Copeland says there isn’t necessarily an influx of families utilizing the pantry this time of year, above the average 25 to 30 a week.

However, around the holidays she says that donations pick up quite a bit, which the pantry is dependent on.

Besides gifts from individuals they are benefited by food drives put on by Galesburg Radio, Hill Correctional Center and Darrell Corbin’s Christmas light display in East Galesburg.

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