Four-year-old's food drive effort for Carson City’s hungry culminates Sunday at Ross Gold Park
A very young Northern Nevada boy has set out on a very mature mission on behalf of his community. Four-year-old Garrett Triner says he doesn’t want to see people go hungry and told his mother, Randi Vigna, he wanted to do something about it after he saw a homeless man on the sidewalk.
The boy asked his mom several questions about hunger and food and why people sometimes go without. That’s when the idea came up to do a food drive, which is happening this weekend with a drop off Sunday at Ross Gold Park in Carson City from 2 to 5 p.m.
Garrett is asking for non-perishable food donations that will be given to Friends in Service Helping, otherwise known as FISH, a local food bank and shelter here in Carson City.
With help from the Carson City Sheriff’s Office, the idea is to get the word out that food collected from the drive will go directly back into the community and families in need through FISH, said Carson City Sheriff’s Office dispatcher Wendy Talavera.
Food can be dropped off in a barrel located in the front office of the Carson City Sheriff’s Office, 911 East Musser Street, from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. now through Friday.
The family will be at Ross Gold Park, located at 280 East Appion Way in Carson City from 2 to 5 p.m. and invite the community to bring their non-perishable foods so that one less person will go hungry. Here is a segment KOLO Channel 8 recently did on the young boy.