Busy Bee

I feel like I've been in a whirlwind of highways, information and new faces this past week. The beginning of last week wasn't too bad. Monday and Tuesday I spent in the office working on finding more training sites for the OBB in my area as well as working on a community resource directory that could not only serve clients in all areas but also serve as a way to find more member agencies for the Freestore Foodbank and more sites for OBB. On Wednesday, Brooke (the other Freestore *Vista) and myself headed over t0 the GE Aviation Learning Center bright and early for a breakfast meeting. We set up a booth with all sorts of information about all of the various programs that the Freestore Foodbank offers. It's a long list and it took us a while to get our elevator speech down below 5 minutes, haha. We handed out fliers about each program, including our own! We also sat in on a presentation at which John Young (CEO of the Freestore Foodbank) gave a speech. It was a powerful speech and served as more inspiration for the work Brooke and I are doing!

On Thursday, I had a training in Portsmouth. I was determined to be on time to this one. So I stayed at my parent's house, which is closer, and left at 6 am...Well I ended up being a half an hour early. But that was okay. I scoped out the town a little and set up the room before anyone got there. It seemed to go alright, but the room was very hot! We ended a little early despite some good questions. And on my way home I noticed a miniature horse farm (If anyone else is a fan of Rob and Big they understand my excitement at seeing this) and 'Frank's Deer Urine'. Yummy! I was glad I got home a little early that night because it happened to be my anniversary that day and my boyfriend and I had reservations for a fancy Korean restaurant in Covington, Ky!

Friday ended up being a half day for me because I had put in quite a few hours with all my traveling and I worked on quite a few things in the morning. Monday and Tuesday again were kind of quiet. I did end up sitting on an Agency Relations meeting on Tuesday that took up most of my afternoon. I really like the department I work with here at the Foodbank and it was good to see how they work together.

Yesterday, I accompanied the Agency Relations team as well as Mary Sehlhorst (Brooke's supervisor), Julie-Smith Morrow (Vice President of the Foodbank), and Kathy from OASHF on a trip to Peebles, Ohio for a USDA meeting. They updated FSFB member agencies on changes to USDA food distribution policy and made sure the rules were clear. At the end Mary and I introduced ourselves and gave a very brief overview of both of the projects we are working on. I am hoping that this was a good way to jump start some more interest in the OBB (as well as the Capacity Development Center).

Tomorrow, I will be tabling at the Quacky Race on Fountain Square. I plan on taking pictures of all the silly duck costumes that I see. I will be sure to post them here. And hopefully, I will have plugged the OBB to lots and lots of people!!