FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Roadrunner Food Bank

CONTACT: Sonya Warwick

Direct: 505-349-8682

Cell: 505-269-4775

FOOD BANK'S MOBILE FOOD PANTRY

RESPONDS TO RUIDOSO FLOODING

Provides Over 36,000 Pounds of Food

Albuquerque, NM - July 30, 2008 – On July 30, Roadrunner Food Bank sent a truck containing 36,000 pounds of food and supplies to the Angus Nazarene Church in Capitan, New Mexico.  The need of food and supplies was coordinated with local emergency responders and will benefit those affected and relocated by the flooding in Ruidoso, New Mexico.

Executive Director, Melody Wattenbarger said, “When we were alerted to the flooding several days ago, we began pulling inventory in our warehouse immediately that way we could act quickly when responders called on us for support.  That call came this morning and within a few hours the truck was loaded and ready to drive to Capitan.”

Roadrunner Food Bank is prepared to respond to disasters such as the flooding in Ruidoso by providing food, water and other supplies.  In August 2006, the Food Bank provided emergency food to 450 families affected by flooding in Hatch, Alamogordo, Socorro and Laguna, New Mexico.  The food bank also participates in statewide disaster planning.

For more information about Roadrunner Food Bank or future deliveries, please contact Sonya Warwick at 505-349-8682.

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Roadrunner Food Bank of New Mexico is New Mexico’s largest non-profit organization dedicated to ending hunger.  Through its statewide network of 600 partner agencies and six regional food banks, Roadrunner Food Bank distributes more than 16 million pounds of food annually to approximately 240,000 New Mexicans in need.  Every dollar donated yields $12 worth of food.  Roadrunner Food Bank is the only New Mexico member of America’s Second Harvest—the Nation’s Food Bank Network.  In the 28 years since it was founded, Roadrunner Food Bank has distributed more than 165 million pounds of food statewide.  For more information about Roadrunner Food Bank and its programs visit www.rrfb.org