November 26, 2025 • 14 mins
We talk with Flint Hills Breadbasket’s Carla Hegemeister about the Thanksgiving surge, the shockwaves from SNAP uncertainty, and how a bigger space and tight partnerships kept up with record demand. We share details on the community meal, holiday hours, and simple ways to help.
• Thanksgiving as peak season for donations, volunteers, and holiday meal support
• Holiday week schedule, turkey pickup times, and office-only days
• Community Thanksgiving meal hours, location, and inclusive purpose
• Volunteer capacity filled early, ongoing needs beyond the holiday
• New facility enabling higher throughput and safer distribution
• SNAP shocks and shutdown uncertainty driving mid to high 800s weekly families
• Rising demand among military and furloughed federal workers
• Forthcoming SNAP administration changes and state cost burdens
• HUD shifts likely to tighten rent support and raise risk of food insecurity
• Nonprofits coordinating to avoid tunnel vision and share resources
• Christmas focused on stability, not extra meat distributions
• Lighted parade as a food and funds driver
• Clear ways to help through drives, volunteering, and donations
FlintHillsBreadbasket.org is where you can find out more information
You can always find out more about the work of the foundation on our website at mcfks.org
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SPEAKER_01 (00:00):
Philanthropy today is brought to you by the Greater
Manhattan Community Foundation.
In this episode, we feature arecently broadcast segment of
the GMCF Community Hour, asheard on News Radio KMAN.
We are back.
It's the GMCF Community Hourhere on News Radio KMAN.
And Carla Hegemeister is theexecutive director of the Flint
(00:21):
Hills Breadbasket.
And my goodness, the breadbaskethas been going through a lot of
change, and uh there's all kindsof things, you know, that and
and and I think I heard a reportthe other day about uh more
customers coming in because ofSNAP benefits and cutbacks, and
(00:42):
we'll address that, but uh we'lltalk a little bit about first
about Thanksgiving.
We're in that week.
We are and that's a big time forthe Flynn's breadbasket and the
people that uh utilize it.
SPEAKER_00 (00:55):
It is.
Um, before I came in here, I wasspeaking out front and just
visiting about the fact thatThanksgiving is our busiest,
busiest time of year.
Um, this really is our peakseason.
Um, once we get pastThanksgiving, people's minds
move from food.
So Thanksgiving is your foodholiday.
And then Christmas is more ofyour making sure you have gifts
(01:16):
for people and and that sort ofthing.
So Thanksgiving for us isprobably the highest of the high
as far as the number ofdonations coming in, people
looking to volunteer and engagewith us in different ways, and
then also the number of peoplewho are needing that support to
make sure that they have thespecial things for their holiday
meal.
So we are at the the maybehopefully the crest of the wave
(01:40):
right now.
We'll see.
SPEAKER_01 (01:42):
The crest of the wave.
What do you mean by that?
SPEAKER_00 (01:45):
Well, the the waves just keep coming, they don't
stop, but maybe we're at thepeak of it.
So then we'll come in into shoreand have a little bit of a
glide.
Um, maybe not, probably not aglide, but maybe we'll just kind
of ease up just a tiny bit,probably not a lot, but maybe a
little bit.
SPEAKER_01 (02:02):
What time frames do you have this week for people to
know about?
SPEAKER_00 (02:05):
So we're open for regular shopping hours today and
tomorrow.
So Monday from 10 to 3, Tuesdayfrom 10 to 6.
Um for folks that did not pickup their holiday meat last week.
Um, we do have turkeys availablestill.
So they can stop in both ofthose days today or tomorrow.
Wednesday, we will have just ourregular office hours.
(02:26):
Um, so we won't be doing ashopping floor, we won't be
doing the market, and thenThursday and Friday will be
closed for the holiday.
The flip of that is that onThursday, the breadbasket is
co-hosting and co-sponsoring thecommunity Thanksgiving meal with
common table.
So there's still a chance forfamilies to come out and um have
(02:48):
a holiday meal if they didn'tpick something up at the
breadbasket or want to just bein community with other people.
Um, it's not simply for somebodywho can't afford food.
It's that common communitytable, community table, common
table, breadbasket, communitymeal on Thanksgiving Day is
really intended to be foranybody who wants to come and
(03:08):
have some company onThanksgiving.
SPEAKER_01 (03:10):
What a great benefit common table has become to this
community.
SPEAKER_00 (03:13):
Absolutely.
We love the fact that at thisplace, um, really it's returning
home.
The Thanksgiving meal in itsorigin was at 901 points.
Was it?
Yes.
If you go back far enough, um, Iremember it far enough.
SPEAKER_01 (03:29):
How back is far enough?
SPEAKER_00 (03:30):
Well, my recollection of the community
Thanksgiving meal was at OldChicago, but not old Chicago on
the west side, but old Chicagoup where Sinkers is now.
Um but prior to that, it was at901 points.
SPEAKER_01 (03:45):
So I think I remember that.
SPEAKER_00 (03:46):
If you really go far, far back, that's where we
did it.
SPEAKER_01 (03:50):
So I came here in 91.
I think that that's yeah.
SPEAKER_00 (03:53):
So it's really a homecoming for it to come back
to that location.
It will um, you know, it's agreat opportunity for our guests
to um, you know, have thatcontinuity for us to be able to
cook in the same building thatwe're serving in.
That will be a definite um assetfor us.
But then also for people whomaybe are not in that building
(04:15):
very often for one reason oranother, that they've not been
at the Lincoln Education Centersince we modified it, since the
school district renovated it.
So at least to get people backinto that building and recognize
that that our spaces within thebuilding or within the community
oftentimes serve more than onepurpose and serve more than one
group of people.
SPEAKER_01 (04:36):
Are there enough volunteers for Thursday?
SPEAKER_00 (04:38):
Yes, 100%.
Um, again, this is the time ofyear where people do want to
engage in that and our volunteerspots for that activity really
actually fill up almost as soonas we post it.
SPEAKER_01 (04:49):
Okay, good.
What time is that?
SPEAKER_00 (04:51):
11 to 2 on Thursday.
So we start serving the meal at11 o'clock, and we'll be
wrapping up with our lastservice right around two.
SPEAKER_01 (05:00):
And by the way, uh for those that have never been
to Common Table there at uh theold ninth grade center, the old
high school, depending on howfar back you want to go, um, the
entry is in the south doors.
SPEAKER_00 (05:12):
That's correct.
It's door number six.
So it's on the south side of thebuilding closest to Fort Riley
Boulevard.
Um, there is construction inthat area right now.
So just allow yourself a littlebit of time to navigate around
the building.
Um, but we're we're reallyexcited for it.
SPEAKER_01 (05:30):
Okay.
Let's talk a bit about the thetough stuff right now.
Okay.
Government shutdown, snapbenefits, layoffs or you know,
pay.
How's that affected you?
SPEAKER_00 (05:43):
Um, so since we moved to our new location, we've
been seeing more people anyway.
Um, as we've all commented, thegrocery prices are higher.
Um, we're seeing more peoplethat need the support no matter
what.
But when we came to October whenthe shutdown happened, we really
saw that just skyrocket.
(06:04):
Um, we saw the number ofmilitary members we were serving
increase.
We saw uh federal employees whowho were furloughed and didn't
know if or when a paycheck wascoming.
We saw an increase in thatpopulation.
And then we saw folks who ummaybe have have stamp benefits
that allowed them to not needthe help of the breadbasket.
(06:26):
But that uncertainty about whenstamp benefits or if SNAP
benefits would be coming broughtthem through our doors.
And so um the month of Octoberinto early November has really
been a huge increase in thenumber of people that we're
serving every week.
Um I've told people in thesummertime, summer months, we
were serving more than 600families a week.
(06:48):
Um then in September we wentinto the 700s, and right now
we're in the mid to high 800s.
Wow.
Last week were we were at 950.
SPEAKER_01 (06:59):
That's a 25, 30% increase, isn't it?
SPEAKER_00 (07:02):
It is.
SPEAKER_01 (07:03):
You able to keep up with the demand?
SPEAKER_00 (07:05):
We are.
Um again, I've said many timesthis year that the move to a new
location couldn't have come at abetter time for us to have the
amount of space that we have toserve the number of visitors
that we're serving in the courseof a day.
Last Tuesday, which this isn'ttoo surprising because it was
day two of turkey distribution.
So we knew it was going to bebusy.
(07:25):
But in an eight-hour day, weserved 330 families.
And there is just no physicalway that we could have done that
at our old location on Yuma.
So the move, the fact that thecommunity supported us to make
that move happen, and that wewere able to do it with our
partners as quickly as we didwith our volunteers, our
(07:47):
community, and that ourcommunity has really stepped up
to make sure that we have foodcoming in just as fast as it's
going out.
SPEAKER_01 (07:56):
You think about all the things that have happened in
the last few years, and you'vebeen in the job, what, three
years?
SPEAKER_00 (08:01):
Three and a half.
It'll be four in March.
SPEAKER_01 (08:04):
And there's been a tremendous amount of change.
SPEAKER_00 (08:07):
Yes.
SPEAKER_01 (08:08):
Um, you know, obviously the move is one thing.
And here recently, of course,with the government shut down
and and like what we had talkedabout, the the increased demand.
What are some of the things thatyou uh kind of anticipate or
maybe even fear for the futureof people that need the help of
(08:30):
the Flint Hills bread basket andother organizations is like
that?
SPEAKER_00 (08:34):
So uh we're kind of, I think, just moving from one
fire to another.
But um right now when we talkabout SNAP benefits, those have
been solidified to an extent uhthrough next fall.
Through the um when thegovernment reopened, they made a
the passage or they made it sothat the SNAP benefits were were
(08:58):
set through next fall.
But that doesn't take intoeffect or into account the
changes to SNAP with the errorrate and all those changes that
were already part of the theHouse bill that will change how
um benefits are paid for in thesense that the state will have a
(09:18):
higher burden of carrying theadministrative cost of SNAP
benefits going forward startingthis October.
So that change is coming downthe pipeline.
Um, every state is going to haveto figure out how they're going
to manage that, how they'regoing to address whatever their
error rate might be.
Um, and we don't have a wholelot of insight yet into how that
(09:42):
will happen and how those ruleswill be administered.
At the same time, um, so thelike I said, the most recent
emergency has been centeredaround food and SNAP.
That's where we were talkingabout the last couple months.
Um but flip that around and goforward, fast forward a couple
of months, changes to HUD, umhousing urban development
(10:03):
funding and their prioritieswhen it comes to serving
homeless people or people whoare reliant upon some sort of
subsidy, whether it's um housingchoice vouchers or um public
housing, there's some changescoming down that road that will
impact people's capacity to payrent, who are really on that
(10:27):
most limited income.
And so again, these are the samepopulation of people.
So maybe now their food is moresecure, but something is gonna
change in how much support theyhave for rent.
Well, if you're talking aboutthat same population of people,
then they're going to be tryingto figure out how do I pay rent
(10:48):
or how do I stay housed.
And so there's only so manydollars for them to go around.
Um, so I think we're gonna betalking about that soon.
And we're gonna be talking aboutthe fact that dollars in the
past that they would have spentof their own income to go
towards food is going to have togo towards rent or housing costs
or electricity costs, um, stufflike that.
(11:11):
So so really the population thatwe serve is being strained at it
at all sides.
And there's not wiggle room intheir budget, there's not wiggle
room in their day-to-day life toreally have capacity to absorb
those increased costs or thosechanges.
And so um, it's just that it'sthat puzzle that you move one
(11:36):
piece and it's Tetris.
You know, you don't change onething without changing something
else and having some otherimpact.
And so for us as nonprofits,we're we're all really
communicating with each other,we're talking with each other
about what does that look likeand how do we support each other
and how do we not have tunnelvision?
And how do we not just have ourhead down all the time, so
(11:56):
focused on ourselves and our ownmission that we're not paying
attention to the greaterlandscape of what's happening in
the community.
SPEAKER_01 (12:02):
We have just a couple of minutes left.
We hadn't talked aboutChristmas.
SPEAKER_00 (12:06):
Okay.
SPEAKER_01 (12:06):
So what's that plan?
SPEAKER_00 (12:08):
Really, for us, Christmas looks like normal
activities when we don't donecessarily an additional um
holiday meat distribution duringChristmas.
Um, we'll have some changes toour hours as we come up to that
holiday week.
But really, what we're focusedon at this point is stability.
We want people to um to be ableto know that that we are
(12:30):
trustworthy of both their theirof the service that we're
providing to people and thestewardship of the food and
funds that they're giving us,that we're being good with it.
SPEAKER_01 (12:41):
And you got the parade coming up.
That's a big day too.
SPEAKER_00 (12:43):
Yes.
The lighted holiday parade iscoming on December 5th.
That's a great opportunity tocome out and um celebrate the
holidays with your family.
The parade has always beenconnected with the breadbasket,
and they're we are putting abigger emphasis this year on
making sure that those paradeentries, entrance, the entrance
to the parade, um, really dohave either a food donation or a
(13:07):
monetary donation to thebreadbasket.
So we're really looking forwardto that.
I've I've heard wind of a coupleof organizations that really
plan to uh light a fire and dothat parade this year.
SPEAKER_01 (13:18):
Okay.
SPEAKER_00 (13:18):
Yeah.
We're excited to see it.
SPEAKER_01 (13:20):
Last question quickly.
I know that that there'sprobably a simple answer.
How can we help the Flynn'sbreadbasket this time of year?
SPEAKER_00 (13:26):
Always um share the word, share what's happening,
pay attention to what'shappening in the community.
Um, know that there's people inneed year-round and that those
people are your friends, yourfamily, your neighbors, your
coworkers.
And um, any way that you canhelp, whether it's through a
food drive, throughvolunteering, through a
donation, we're happy to haveit.
(13:48):
And we're just, again, alwaysgrateful for the community
support.
SPEAKER_01 (13:51):
Well, happy holidays to you and your family and all
those at the Flint HillsBreadbasket.
Flint Hillsbreadbasket.org iswhere you can find out more
information.
I bet there's a place where youyou can go online and make a
contribution.
Absolutely.
I bet there is on that page.
John Poulson is coming in nexton the GMCF Community Hour here
on behalf of SunflowerChildren's Collective.
(14:13):
This is the GMCF Community Hour.
You can always find out moreabout the work of the foundation
on our website at mcfks.org.
Philanthropy today is brought to you by the Greater
Manhattan Community Foundation.
In this episode, we feature arecently broadcast segment of
the GMCF Community Hour, asheard on News Radio KMAN.
We are back.
It's the GMCF Community Hourhere on News Radio KMAN.
And Carla Hegemeister is theexecutive director of the Flint
(00:21):
Hills Breadbasket.
And my goodness, the breadbaskethas been going through a lot of
change, and uh there's all kindsof things, you know, that and
and and I think I heard a reportthe other day about uh more
customers coming in because ofSNAP benefits and cutbacks, and
(00:42):
we'll address that, but uh we'lltalk a little bit about first
about Thanksgiving.
We're in that week.
We are and that's a big time forthe Flynn's breadbasket and the
people that uh utilize it.
SPEAKER_00 (00:55):
It is.
Um, before I came in here, I wasspeaking out front and just
visiting about the fact thatThanksgiving is our busiest,
busiest time of year.
Um, this really is our peakseason.
Um, once we get pastThanksgiving, people's minds
move from food.
So Thanksgiving is your foodholiday.
And then Christmas is more ofyour making sure you have gifts
(01:16):
for people and and that sort ofthing.
So Thanksgiving for us isprobably the highest of the high
as far as the number ofdonations coming in, people
looking to volunteer and engagewith us in different ways, and
then also the number of peoplewho are needing that support to
make sure that they have thespecial things for their holiday
meal.
So we are at the the maybehopefully the crest of the wave
(01:40):
right now.
We'll see.
SPEAKER_01 (01:42):
The crest of the wave.
What do you mean by that?
SPEAKER_00 (01:45):
Well, the the waves just keep coming, they don't
stop, but maybe we're at thepeak of it.
So then we'll come in into shoreand have a little bit of a
glide.
Um, maybe not, probably not aglide, but maybe we'll just kind
of ease up just a tiny bit,probably not a lot, but maybe a
little bit.
SPEAKER_01 (02:02):
What time frames do you have this week for people to
know about?
SPEAKER_00 (02:05):
So we're open for regular shopping hours today and
tomorrow.
So Monday from 10 to 3, Tuesdayfrom 10 to 6.
Um for folks that did not pickup their holiday meat last week.
Um, we do have turkeys availablestill.
So they can stop in both ofthose days today or tomorrow.
Wednesday, we will have just ourregular office hours.
(02:26):
Um, so we won't be doing ashopping floor, we won't be
doing the market, and thenThursday and Friday will be
closed for the holiday.
The flip of that is that onThursday, the breadbasket is
co-hosting and co-sponsoring thecommunity Thanksgiving meal with
common table.
So there's still a chance forfamilies to come out and um have
(02:48):
a holiday meal if they didn'tpick something up at the
breadbasket or want to just bein community with other people.
Um, it's not simply for somebodywho can't afford food.
It's that common communitytable, community table, common
table, breadbasket, communitymeal on Thanksgiving Day is
really intended to be foranybody who wants to come and
(03:08):
have some company onThanksgiving.
SPEAKER_01 (03:10):
What a great benefit common table has become to this
community.
SPEAKER_00 (03:13):
Absolutely.
We love the fact that at thisplace, um, really it's returning
home.
The Thanksgiving meal in itsorigin was at 901 points.
Was it?
Yes.
If you go back far enough, um, Iremember it far enough.
SPEAKER_01 (03:29):
How back is far enough?
SPEAKER_00 (03:30):
Well, my recollection of the community
Thanksgiving meal was at OldChicago, but not old Chicago on
the west side, but old Chicagoup where Sinkers is now.
Um but prior to that, it was at901 points.
SPEAKER_01 (03:45):
So I think I remember that.
SPEAKER_00 (03:46):
If you really go far, far back, that's where we
did it.
SPEAKER_01 (03:50):
So I came here in 91.
I think that that's yeah.
SPEAKER_00 (03:53):
So it's really a homecoming for it to come back
to that location.
It will um, you know, it's agreat opportunity for our guests
to um, you know, have thatcontinuity for us to be able to
cook in the same building thatwe're serving in.
That will be a definite um assetfor us.
But then also for people whomaybe are not in that building
(04:15):
very often for one reason oranother, that they've not been
at the Lincoln Education Centersince we modified it, since the
school district renovated it.
So at least to get people backinto that building and recognize
that that our spaces within thebuilding or within the community
oftentimes serve more than onepurpose and serve more than one
group of people.
SPEAKER_01 (04:36):
Are there enough volunteers for Thursday?
SPEAKER_00 (04:38):
Yes, 100%.
Um, again, this is the time ofyear where people do want to
engage in that and our volunteerspots for that activity really
actually fill up almost as soonas we post it.
SPEAKER_01 (04:49):
Okay, good.
What time is that?
SPEAKER_00 (04:51):
11 to 2 on Thursday.
So we start serving the meal at11 o'clock, and we'll be
wrapping up with our lastservice right around two.
SPEAKER_01 (05:00):
And by the way, uh for those that have never been
to Common Table there at uh theold ninth grade center, the old
high school, depending on howfar back you want to go, um, the
entry is in the south doors.
SPEAKER_00 (05:12):
That's correct.
It's door number six.
So it's on the south side of thebuilding closest to Fort Riley
Boulevard.
Um, there is construction inthat area right now.
So just allow yourself a littlebit of time to navigate around
the building.
Um, but we're we're reallyexcited for it.
SPEAKER_01 (05:30):
Okay.
Let's talk a bit about the thetough stuff right now.
Okay.
Government shutdown, snapbenefits, layoffs or you know,
pay.
How's that affected you?
SPEAKER_00 (05:43):
Um, so since we moved to our new location, we've
been seeing more people anyway.
Um, as we've all commented, thegrocery prices are higher.
Um, we're seeing more peoplethat need the support no matter
what.
But when we came to October whenthe shutdown happened, we really
saw that just skyrocket.
(06:04):
Um, we saw the number ofmilitary members we were serving
increase.
We saw uh federal employees whowho were furloughed and didn't
know if or when a paycheck wascoming.
We saw an increase in thatpopulation.
And then we saw folks who ummaybe have have stamp benefits
that allowed them to not needthe help of the breadbasket.
(06:26):
But that uncertainty about whenstamp benefits or if SNAP
benefits would be coming broughtthem through our doors.
And so um the month of Octoberinto early November has really
been a huge increase in thenumber of people that we're
serving every week.
Um I've told people in thesummertime, summer months, we
were serving more than 600families a week.
(06:48):
Um then in September we wentinto the 700s, and right now
we're in the mid to high 800s.
Wow.
Last week were we were at 950.
SPEAKER_01 (06:59):
That's a 25, 30% increase, isn't it?
SPEAKER_00 (07:02):
It is.
SPEAKER_01 (07:03):
You able to keep up with the demand?
SPEAKER_00 (07:05):
We are.
Um again, I've said many timesthis year that the move to a new
location couldn't have come at abetter time for us to have the
amount of space that we have toserve the number of visitors
that we're serving in the courseof a day.
Last Tuesday, which this isn'ttoo surprising because it was
day two of turkey distribution.
So we knew it was going to bebusy.
(07:25):
But in an eight-hour day, weserved 330 families.
And there is just no physicalway that we could have done that
at our old location on Yuma.
So the move, the fact that thecommunity supported us to make
that move happen, and that wewere able to do it with our
partners as quickly as we didwith our volunteers, our
(07:47):
community, and that ourcommunity has really stepped up
to make sure that we have foodcoming in just as fast as it's
going out.
SPEAKER_01 (07:56):
You think about all the things that have happened in
the last few years, and you'vebeen in the job, what, three
years?
SPEAKER_00 (08:01):
Three and a half.
It'll be four in March.
SPEAKER_01 (08:04):
And there's been a tremendous amount of change.
SPEAKER_00 (08:07):
Yes.
SPEAKER_01 (08:08):
Um, you know, obviously the move is one thing.
And here recently, of course,with the government shut down
and and like what we had talkedabout, the the increased demand.
What are some of the things thatyou uh kind of anticipate or
maybe even fear for the futureof people that need the help of
(08:30):
the Flint Hills bread basket andother organizations is like
that?
SPEAKER_00 (08:34):
So uh we're kind of, I think, just moving from one
fire to another.
But um right now when we talkabout SNAP benefits, those have
been solidified to an extent uhthrough next fall.
Through the um when thegovernment reopened, they made a
the passage or they made it sothat the SNAP benefits were were
(08:58):
set through next fall.
But that doesn't take intoeffect or into account the
changes to SNAP with the errorrate and all those changes that
were already part of the theHouse bill that will change how
um benefits are paid for in thesense that the state will have a
(09:18):
higher burden of carrying theadministrative cost of SNAP
benefits going forward startingthis October.
So that change is coming downthe pipeline.
Um, every state is going to haveto figure out how they're going
to manage that, how they'regoing to address whatever their
error rate might be.
Um, and we don't have a wholelot of insight yet into how that
(09:42):
will happen and how those ruleswill be administered.
At the same time, um, so thelike I said, the most recent
emergency has been centeredaround food and SNAP.
That's where we were talkingabout the last couple months.
Um but flip that around and goforward, fast forward a couple
of months, changes to HUD, umhousing urban development
(10:03):
funding and their prioritieswhen it comes to serving
homeless people or people whoare reliant upon some sort of
subsidy, whether it's um housingchoice vouchers or um public
housing, there's some changescoming down that road that will
impact people's capacity to payrent, who are really on that
(10:27):
most limited income.
And so again, these are the samepopulation of people.
So maybe now their food is moresecure, but something is gonna
change in how much support theyhave for rent.
Well, if you're talking aboutthat same population of people,
then they're going to be tryingto figure out how do I pay rent
(10:48):
or how do I stay housed.
And so there's only so manydollars for them to go around.
Um, so I think we're gonna betalking about that soon.
And we're gonna be talking aboutthe fact that dollars in the
past that they would have spentof their own income to go
towards food is going to have togo towards rent or housing costs
or electricity costs, um, stufflike that.
(11:11):
So so really the population thatwe serve is being strained at it
at all sides.
And there's not wiggle room intheir budget, there's not wiggle
room in their day-to-day life toreally have capacity to absorb
those increased costs or thosechanges.
And so um, it's just that it'sthat puzzle that you move one
(11:36):
piece and it's Tetris.
You know, you don't change onething without changing something
else and having some otherimpact.
And so for us as nonprofits,we're we're all really
communicating with each other,we're talking with each other
about what does that look likeand how do we support each other
and how do we not have tunnelvision?
And how do we not just have ourhead down all the time, so
(11:56):
focused on ourselves and our ownmission that we're not paying
attention to the greaterlandscape of what's happening in
the community.
SPEAKER_01 (12:02):
We have just a couple of minutes left.
We hadn't talked aboutChristmas.
SPEAKER_00 (12:06):
Okay.
SPEAKER_01 (12:06):
So what's that plan?
SPEAKER_00 (12:08):
Really, for us, Christmas looks like normal
activities when we don't donecessarily an additional um
holiday meat distribution duringChristmas.
Um, we'll have some changes toour hours as we come up to that
holiday week.
But really, what we're focusedon at this point is stability.
We want people to um to be ableto know that that we are
(12:30):
trustworthy of both their theirof the service that we're
providing to people and thestewardship of the food and
funds that they're giving us,that we're being good with it.
SPEAKER_01 (12:41):
And you got the parade coming up.
That's a big day too.
SPEAKER_00 (12:43):
Yes.
The lighted holiday parade iscoming on December 5th.
That's a great opportunity tocome out and um celebrate the
holidays with your family.
The parade has always beenconnected with the breadbasket,
and they're we are putting abigger emphasis this year on
making sure that those paradeentries, entrance, the entrance
to the parade, um, really dohave either a food donation or a
(13:07):
monetary donation to thebreadbasket.
So we're really looking forwardto that.
I've I've heard wind of a coupleof organizations that really
plan to uh light a fire and dothat parade this year.
SPEAKER_01 (13:18):
Okay.
SPEAKER_00 (13:18):
Yeah.
We're excited to see it.
SPEAKER_01 (13:20):
Last question quickly.
I know that that there'sprobably a simple answer.
How can we help the Flynn'sbreadbasket this time of year?
SPEAKER_00 (13:26):
Always um share the word, share what's happening,
pay attention to what'shappening in the community.
Um, know that there's people inneed year-round and that those
people are your friends, yourfamily, your neighbors, your
coworkers.
And um, any way that you canhelp, whether it's through a
food drive, throughvolunteering, through a
donation, we're happy to haveit.
(13:48):
And we're just, again, alwaysgrateful for the community
support.
SPEAKER_01 (13:51):
Well, happy holidays to you and your family and all
those at the Flint HillsBreadbasket.
Flint Hillsbreadbasket.org iswhere you can find out more
information.
I bet there's a place where youyou can go online and make a
contribution.
Absolutely.
I bet there is on that page.
John Poulson is coming in nexton the GMCF Community Hour here
on behalf of SunflowerChildren's Collective.
(14:13):
This is the GMCF Community Hour.
You can always find out moreabout the work of the foundation
on our website at mcfks.org.
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