Lots of food. Lots of people. Lots of fun.

Andrew's Park next Sunday at 7:00 P.M.!

Yesterday.

"If they don't come to us, we'll come to them."

Last night just before setting up in Andrew's Park like scheduled, I decided it would be a good idea to go down to the Salvation Army emergency shelter and tell everyone that we'll be serving food at 7:00. Most of the people there were planning on staying there that night, and some had even just come back from Andrew's because they thought we might be down there earlier. I asked as many people as I could if they could come, even if I gave them a ride. But at Salvation Army, you have to sign in by a certain time, and the rooms are first come first serve. If you aren't there early, you don't have shelter that night, and if you're not back by 9, you're locked out. Needless to say they couldn't leave even for a minute to come eat with us. Upon investigating Andrew's Park for a population of people who might need food, we decided it was time to move the food over to Salvation Army and set up outside of our cars. With the exception of enormous amounts of bread, the food was distributed entirely to families staying at the emergency shelter.

The point of this story is to say that I need help promoting FNB until we get a good population of people to feed. If you want to help, please call us at 303-704-5223 or email us at normanfnb@gmail.com.

NEXT WEEK WE'RE SERVING AT LION'S PARK AT 7:00 P.M. PLEASE BE THERE.

Hey there!

Decided it would be a good idea to have some organization via the interweb for the Norman Food Not Bombs group being started... so here it is. Here's basically a low down about what's going on right now:

Food Not Bombs... if you're not sure what it is, head to this website: foodnotbombs.net.

A group of people in central Oklahoma are trying to reorganize Food Not Bombs events in Norman. Pretty much we want to take all food that would otherwise go to waste and provide healthy, vegan meals for the community, whether that be low income families, the homeless population, suburbanite teenagers, crusty punks, etc. Everyone is invited. What we've been doing the past couple of weeks is setting up at different parks in Norman (Andrew's and Lion's) on Sunday evenings and distributing food we've prepared in our kitchens to anyone who looks like they might want some. Now, this project is in a very infantile stage and it has very few volunteers. It's kind of a crucial time period for us because the project is extremely vulnerable. The point of me even making this post is to allow others who might want to get involved to do just that, get involved.

Here's what we need volunteers for right now:

Promoting the event every week so that we have a good population of people coming out on a regular basis to eat.

Finding reliable food sources to distribute.

Cooking and cooking knowledge!

Transporting food!

(Of course, all of these things can be broken down into subsections such as "designing flyers, talking to people, dumpstering, talking to grocery stores around town about contributions, etc.)

Here are some material things we need:

Food. Any kind. Must be vegan.

Kitchenware: serving utensils, big ol' pots and pans, massive containers, coolers, something to store water/drinks in, etc.

Reusable silverware, plates, bowls, cups.

Here is how you can contact me or anyone else involved in Food Not Bombs:

EMAIL:
normanfnb@gmail.com
coltonenough@gmail.com

PHONE:
303-704-5223
405-863-2888

See you out on the streets makin' things happen,
Colton.

P.S. This Sunday, August 2nd, we'll be meeting at Andrew's Park around 7:00 P.M.