Eunice Food Bank moves to Park Avenue

The Eunice Food Bank is now located at a centralized location at 251 Park Ave., and food distribution is continuing as usual.
“We have twice the space, more shelves for lots of food and the shelves labeled -- we are better organized,” said Mary Ann Guillory, executive director of the Eunice Food Bank. “We are now more centralized as well. Some people had a hard time getting to the Northwest Community Center (the food bank’s previous location).”
Food distribution will continue to be from 9 a.m. to noon on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays.
According to Guillory, the food bank assists an average of about 150 families a month, and last month, that number was close to 200.
“We have been negotiating this move with the city and Mayor Moody for a while,” said Deacon David Guillory of The Eunice Ministerial Alliance. “We were just waiting for the DMV to move out.”
The deacon and executive director wished to thank the many volunteers that assisted with the move, including Jackie Vallere, Harry Reed, Linus Cormier, Al Klein, Darrel Fruge, Gernis Guidry, Elijah Deville, David Smith, Phillip Devillier, Robert Feucht, Bourque’s Signs, city workers and Eunice Police Department Chaplain Lloyd Antoine. The volunteers helped to build additional shelves, clean, trim trees, move items from the community center location to the new location, paint, caulk and retile the floor.