Ntl. Guard to help Adopt-A-Block distribute food in the community Saturday

SALISBURY, Md. – For the past couple of weeks, the Emmanuel Wesleyan Church’s Adopt-A-Block program has had to make changes to change the way they feed families in the community due to the coronavirus. But program organizers say things are about to change. Mark Thompson, the director of the program,  tells 47 ABC starting Saturday, they’ll be back out in neighborhoods handing out bags of food to those who need it most with help from the National Guard. Thompson says there will be three locations for people to come to either walk or drive up to get these meals. Those locations include the Hotel Esther, the Truitt Street Community Center Parking Lot, and behind the Parkway Church of God. Program organizers add that it’s important to get back out into the community in order to make these meals more accessible.

“This time, we’re going to go back on the street where people who couldn’t drive to us at the church, now they can walk up to the locations that are convenient to their homes, pick up their food, and we can see them again,” said Thompson.

The meal distributions will take place starting Saturday, from 9 AM until 11 AM, and then they will continue to take place on the second and fourth Saturday of every month.