The Food Pantry shelves are usually brimming with a variety of items for clients of Resource Center.
Resource Center put out a call for donations Thursday for its food pantry serving low-income people with HIV/AIDS.
“We have peanut butter, beans, tomato sauce and carrots, and that’s it,” Resource Center spokesman Rafael McDonnell said. “We’re giving away Twizzlers because that’s all we’ve got.”
He was at the Food Pantry on Denton Drive Cutoff across from Inwood Station celebrating the last day of work of pantry manager Micki Pacific, who has been with the Center 10 years.
“I can’t remember it ever looking like that,” McDonnell said.
Partially it’s the time of year, he said. Because it’s Pride week, people aren’t having food drives. Some of the pantry’s stock comes from the North Texas Food Bank.
“But the Food Bank doesn’t have because of the sequester,” he said.
The Center will accept canned goods donations for the pantry at the front desk at 2701 Reagan St. on Friday and Saturday. Officials are also urging people to bring canned goods to the Center’s 30th Anniversary and Open House on Saturday, and can accept donations at the pantry on Denton Drive Cutoff on Monday.
McDonnell said he hopes the community will be as outraged that people don’t have food as they are about the dress code for the parade.
