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Food programs headed to old Julia P. campus
Food Bank, Rebeccas Caf merge
Food Bank- Dorothy Simmons-B
Dorothy Simmons, a Statesboro Food Bank part-time employee who volunteers additional hours, packs boxes for distribution to families at the Food Bank's current location in the old Sallie Zetterower Elementary School lunchroom. Soon the organization will move to the former Julia P. Bryant Elementary School near her home. - photo by AL HACKLE/Staff
Three programs that feed people in need – the Food Bank Inc., Rebecca’s Café and the Food Bank’s Morning Outreach – plan to move to a shared location on Statesboro’s west side in the early months of 2014.“I would like to see everything go to one place so everybody would know, you know, that if you’re hungry you can get a meal here,” said Joe Bill Brannon, the volunteer operations manager for the Statesboro Food Bank.The move also allows room for expansion. Eventually, Rebecca’s Café, which currently serves a free, fresh-cooked lunch each Tuesday, could expand to five days a week, organizers say.The Food Bank’s lease for the lunchroom and adjoining offices at the former Sallie Zetterower Elementary School campus on Gentilly Road ends Dec. 31. By a unanimous decision Dec. 5, the Bulloch County Board of Education replaced it with a lease for a much larger portion of the former Julia P. Bryant Elementary School on Donnie Simmons Way, effective Jan. 1 but with a 60-day grace period for the Food Bank to move.Otherwise, terms of the lease remain the same, with a nominal $1 annual rent, according to school system Chief Financial Officer Troy Brown.
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