The River of Life (ROL) Food Pantry was housed in a 3,500 square-foot facility that has been renovated and is now occupied by the Dollar Tree, 402 E. Commerce Street, Fairfield. The ROL Food Pantry built a new 7,500 square foot warehouse facility next door to the River of Life Family Worship Center, 1201 E. Commerce Street, Fairfield.
Because the larger warehouse facility with teardrop pallet rack serves as a hub for receiving, storing and distributing more food and fresh produce than ever before and because partnerships are being formed with additional churches for financial and volunteer support, the River of Life Food Pantry is now called the Community Food Bank. Aged Doubleground Hardwood Landscaping Mulch – Mulch is environmentally friendly and healthy for your plants and soil. It provides the ultimate in natural and long -lasting beautiful color in your landscape. Our landscaping mulch manufacturer is double ground because the more times it is ground the finer and more uniform the texture. We manufacture and sell this mulch at our Jonesborough location where you can either purchase it on site or have the mulch delivered to your site. Cut out the middle man and buy direct from the manufacturer. Unaka Forest Products, Inc. goes Green! I know you must be asking whether it is possible for a lumber company to go green. It certainly is! Trees are America’s most renewable resource. According to the US Forest Service, approximately two and a half million acres of trees are planted annually. This annual planting roughly equals the size of the State of Connecticut. As a pallet manufacturer, we produce and sell thousands of tons annually of biomass which in turn is sold for biofuel. This has allowed us to serve the growing number of biofuel suppliers that are helping the country become greener. In order to keep this product clean and free from any ground debris such as dirt, gravel, etc., as it is produced it falls directly into our vans. This makes for a better, cleaner, higher-quality product. You will see this process demonstrated in the picture. As you may have read under “Introduction,” we buy the whole tree from independent loggers in our area. In order to have an edge on the competition we operate a computerized Pendu scragg mill and Pendu precut system. These systems enable us to accurately and efficiently produce precut lumber both for our own pallet production as well as for sales to outside customers. Here you will get more about the wooden pallet manufacturer near Asheville.
The computer set works on these machines ensure that we are most proficient in yielding as much grade lumber from the logs as possible. This setup from buying the whole tree to sawing our own lumber allows us to have an edge on our competitors because we do not have to purchase our precut lumber from outside sources, we are able to proficiently produce this lumber in house. Let me urge you first, if you haven’t already, to read our “Introduction”, you will find a significant amount of information about the production of our pallets there. We can provide our customers with unbeatable service. The 32 acres that we are located on allow plenty of room to inventory your pallets either in a dry shed, on a concrete surface or on our lot. Being able to inventory your pallets cuts down significantly on lead times. If we inventory your pallets we can deliver them to you within 24 hours. We control all of our trucking operations so this will ensure on time deliveries to you. We are also IPPC certified, meaning that we have a certified heat treatment facility and we can heat treat your pallets or lumber to the IPPC standards needed for exporting. Heat treating kills mold, fungus and insects that may be on the pallet.
Clients are able to drive by the new warehouse space to get food but the lobby is an empty shell, waiting on funds (approximately $25,000) for its completion. So that the lobby can be used productively—as a meeting area and resource center for client families, volunteers and others—the Freestone County community has launched a fundraising campaign “Complete the Community Food Bank Lobby” culminating in the COUNTRY FAIR on Saturday, September 14th, a one-day family festival designed to raise money to help finish the lobby.
The event will take place both outside and inside the new Community Food Bank’s warehouse facility and the River of Life Family Worship Center. We rented a couple portable stages which will hold the main attractions, and they will each be placed at each location. Admission is FREE.
Bring lots of cash to purchase homemade baked goods and frozen casseroles as well as tasty hamburgers, hotdogs and nachos from “What’s for Dinner?” food truck. Enjoy cooking and jewelry-making demonstrations as well as a lively performance by “The Edge Dance Company”. Make sure your children and grandchildren come to the exciting “Kids Zone” filled with no-costs activities. Shop at the numerous arts/crafts vendor booths and tap your feet as you listen to the popular Tin Top Road Bluegrass/Gospel Band.
Prospective vendors, please contact Mary Schutz at texschutz78@gmail.com 903-389-7586. Sponsors may request an information packet, lizthornton10@aol.com 817-988-8533. For more information, visit www.facebook.com/Country-Fair-for-Food-Bank
