The amount of food contributed by patrons to the Lihue Public Library overwhelmed and surprised the Hawaii Foodbank Kauai representatives on Thursday when they stopped by to pick up the collection.

“This is a lot of food,” said Wes Perreira, manager of the Hawaii Foodbank Kauai. “We’re going back to the warehouse and get boxes to pack the food. We’ll be back.”

While waiting on the arrival of Corteva agriscience which was scheduled to drop off its annual contributions to the two food banks, Perreia said, they were scheduled to make a late-date delivery to the Pacific Missile Range Facility in Mana to take care of more than 170 families that are feeling the impacts of the government shutdown. The trip to the base is in addition to normally scheduled deliveries of fresh produce for the area

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