The Food Bank of Contra Costa and Solano held their annual fundraiser Thursday night at West Wind Solano Drive-In in Concord.
The movie they showed:"Back to the Future Part II." It was especiallly fitting as so many living with food insecurity wish they could go back to a time when a trip to the grocery store wasn't so expensive.
In April, food prices went up more than 10% from a year ago, with bacon up almost 18% and eggs up more than 22%."Before the pandemic, one in nine of the residents in Contra Costa and Solano counties relied on us for some supplemental food. That number is now one in six, so that is a dramatic increase in need," Sjostrom said.
"Those are huge costs for us. It's really impacted our food bank's ability to drive as much food as we have been," Sjostrom said."My family, my siblings and I were on the school food-assistance programs and there were definitely -- that if we weren't, we just wouldn't have eaten," said Amber Rower who lives in Contra Costa County.
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