Paying it forward

Couple giving back after help from Food Bank

Lynn McIntosh, center, son Marshall , right, husband Robert, far left, and daughter Carroll Cox, center left, assist Mike Short of the Statesboro Food Bank Wednesday in picking up donations from Wal-Mart. The McIntosh family, once recipients of the services provided by the food bank, are now regular volunteers.

112112 FOOD BANK 01 — Lynn McIntosh, center, son Marshall , right, husband Robert, far left, and daughter Carroll Cox, center left, assist Mike Short of the Statesboro Food Bank Wednesday in picking up donations from Wal-Mart. The McIntosh family, once recipients of the services provided by the food bank, are now regular volunteers.

After being lent one helping hand, members of a Bulloch County family are extending all of theirs to support a local organization.When Robert and Lynn McIntosh receive a warm smile or humble “thank you” from a man or woman leaving the Statesboro Food Bank, groceries in hand, they get it. The McIntoshes, who spend regular hours volunteering at the local nonprofit, understand the gratitude, the need — they know, because they have stood on the other side. “(The Statesboro Food Bank) has been there for us,” Robert McIntosh said. “Hopefully we never need it again, but we know that if we do, they would be here for us — just like they are here for everyone who ever needs them.”“We just try to pay it forward,” said Lynn McIntosh.

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