Update by PD: Mrs P and I will be throwing into the hat at tomorrow's chicken dinner. The floods continue to strain the resources of communities across the Upper Midwest. Please consider making a donation, if not for our sake, then for the sake of Colloquial's mom, who's pulling together the fund drive at our little church.




The recent flooding in the Wisconsin has taken its toll on a good chunk of Fond du Lac.  My basement escaped unscathed, unlike many others, but the biggest problem is that the flooding closed down all of the city's food pantries.  

Yes, the mail is being sorted at the fairgrounds because the post office is closed, and yes, I have to rely on walking for exercise because the aquatic center is mired in sewage.  But these are minor issues compared to the inability of Fond du Lac's poorest residents to obtain the food they need to survive.

Broken Bread, housed in St. Paul's Cathedral at 51 W. Division St., is undergoing a rebirth. Like Fondy Food Pantry, it lost everything from coolers to food.

Chairwoman Kathleen MacGregor said it was a horrible loss, especially since the pantry recently received 600 crates of food from the Letter Carrier Food Drive. She estimated that the organization lost 10,000 to 20,000 items. The U.S. Department of Agriculture said the canned goods would be safe, but the pantry threw them out anyway to avoid contamination, she explained.

The full article is available here.

Can you help?  PD is offering up use of the PayPal account for anybody who would like to make a donation to help offset the costs of cleaning and restocking the food pantries.  Anything and everything is appreciated.

Thanks, everyone...