Donor Spotlight

Fairbanks Community Food Bank has had a 35 year long relationship with Alyeska. Alyeska was 40 years old in 2017, so they came to our community before the Fairbanks Community Food Bank, but they were one of our first sponsors when the local idea was that we have local surplus food and we need a way to salvage that food and give it to local people who need it during the recession of 1982. They have always been the “go-to” sponsor for events such as building a new Fair booth, helping with the construction clean-up after the food bank warehouse was completed in 1998, and sponsoring the canned food drive at the Tanana Valley State Fair. Most recently, they have given us an annual MATCHING fund drive event in November so that we can double the donations of those who choose to donate during that time of the year. The Fairbanks Community Food Bank is very thankful for the great partnership we have had all these years, and we will always remember the amazing canned food drive (tons of food wrapped in a HUGE box and tied with a HUGE red ribbon) which was delivered to our doorstep on Christmas Eve (organized each year by George Berry) and the bake sales which Alyeska staff organized as a fundraiser for United Way, and the time George Berry and Lynda Sather chose to find some employee donations to purchase potatoes for the food box program. That year we had the fun of naming Alyeska’s President, Thomas Barrett, as our very own Mr. Potato Head. Good times in our Alaska history, and good times ahead as we work our way out of this recession, too.