For more information or to volunteer, visit FTN online, send them an email, write them at Feed The Needy, Post Office Box 2067, Memphis, TN 38101-2067, or you can contact them by phone at (901) 482-1114. At three o’clock in the morning on Monday, April 15, 2019, when most were just turning over the first time to get those last 3 to 4 hours of sleep before waking up and starting their day, this group of enterprising individuals had already left home and traveled to a warehouse located at 2158 Heyde Avenue inside the former Defense Depot off Airways Boulevard near the Airways Police Precinct. You might ask yourself why would anyone get up so early to go to a warehouse? For what purpose? For the purpose of packing 1,150 boxes weighing approximately 40 pounds each, consisting of a 10-12 lb. ham, canned vegetables, dinner roles, cooking oil, margarine, cornbread mix, eggs, boxed macaroni and cheese, rice, canned greens, canned Ro-Tel with diced tomatoes and green chilies, dry spaghetti, spaghetti sauce, mashed potatoes, canned yams, cake mix and frosting. An Easter basket/box that made Easter a little bit better for 1,150 individuals and families living in Memphis and the Mid-South - Something Feed the Needy (FTN) Executive Director Ruth Banks (front in red sweatshirt) and hundreds of volunteers do twice a year at Thanksgiving and now Easter. Pictured are (front from left) Banks, Memphis Police Department Explorers cadet D. Garland (kneeling); (1st row standing from left) Shelby County Sheriff’s Office (SCSO) Ofc. J. Bells, Lesa (Fred) Jackson (behind Banks), SCSO Ofc. V. Ford, SCSO Ofc. M. Jackson, Diamond Ramirez of Latino Memphis, SCSO Ofc. R. Kight, MPD Ofc. J. Perry, FTN Secretary and retired Valero employee Roberta ‘Bert’ Richards, and Memphis Police Department (MPD) Ofc. C. Campbell; (rear, standing from left) MPD Ofc. B. Huff, MPD Ofc. T Jones (hidden), MPD Ofc. D. Smith, SCSO Ofc. C. Ewing, retired Valero employee and FTN Vice Chair Johnny Brumley, SCSO Ofc. Kendra Fain, MPD Sgt. A. Parks, and retired Cargill employee Fred ‘Action’ Jackson. Photography by Marvina Saulsberry 19
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