Drive-up food distribution helps families make it through tough times
The cars waiting to receive food boxes ran three rows wide and a dozen deep at the Big Butler Fairgrounds Tuesday morning.
At 11:20 a.m., the cars lined up were ready to receive their packages, with more cars stretching as far as the eye could see throughout the fairgrounds.
While waiting in line, retired PennDOT worker Bill Bortz of Mount Chestnut said that he was not at the fairgrounds that day for himself.
“I'm trying to help out my (daughter-in-law),” Bortz said. “She's a single mom ... and she has to work, so we're getting her some food.”
Bortz's son died in 2017, and he explained he was trying to help his daughter-in-law take care of his grandson. He said his daughter-in-law had been able to keep her job processing loans through the pandemic, but she could not take time off to be there Tuesday.
This is an excerpt from a story that appears in Wednesday's Butler Eagle.
