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Up with People cast serves up hot meals
Traveling performers reach out to locals
W 082715 UWP REBECCAS CAFE
In this file photo from 2015, members of Up With People serve patrons at Rebecca's Cafe. Due to the Covid-19 social distancing and precautions against spreading the virus, the cafe, a community kitchen adjacent to the Statesboro Food Bank where residents in need were offered meals, will be closed indefinitely, said café president Jim Bastorache.
Young adults from nine nations chopped and seasoned food, served on the chow line, cleaned up and even provided a little music Thursday when Up with People cast members did a turn at the local free-lunch kitchen, Rebecca's Café. "We try to do as much as we can for the community that we visit," said Arndt Saalfeldt, from Denmark. "So we try to incorporate all the helping hands we can to do stuff like we do here, to help people, to help prepare the meal.
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