Mill Creek breaks ground on new, larger food bank

MILL CREEK — Mill Creek Community Food Bank broke ground Monday after receiving $200,000 in donations following extensive damage from a fallen tree.

Executive Director of Hope Creek Charitable Foundation Tom Sweeney announced plans for an 80-foot-long and 56-foot-wide warehouse during a groundbreaking ceremony on Monday. The new structure will eventually store and distribute food to the Mill Creek community.

The Hope Creek Charitable Foundation operates the Mill Creek Community Food Bank and the Backpacks of Hope program, which collaborates with schools to provide food to eligible students.

The building will be much larger and more usable than the three portable buildings that the food bank had already outgrown, which were heavily damaged by a tree that fell during a windstorm in Febr