Colleen Loehr Feeds The Community: Beverly-Mt. Greenwood Hero

BEVERLY-MT. GREENWOOD — When times are tough, heroes emerge. We all know someone who's making a difference right now as we live through unprecedented and changing times.

Here at Patch, we've launched an initiative to help recognize these heroes making a difference in their communities. Together with Ring, we're working to let all your neighbors know about these outstanding people and their stories.

This submission comes from Mary Ellen Kelleher who nominated Facebook pal, Colleen Loehr.

Name: Colleen Loehr
State: IL
Hometown: Beverly-Mount Greenwood
Hero's job: Food pantry volunteer
Relationship to nominee: Facebook friend
Reason for recognition: Colleen saw that the local food banks were struggling and started picking up donations from people every single week-- she advertises on all the local pages and then drives all over. She even got a back up for herself while she was on vacation.
One thing to know: Her actions have spread to other people thinking about how they can help the food banks; she saw a problem and stepped up to solve it, donating a ton of her time to do so.
Submitter name: Mary Ellen Kelleher

Thanks for all you do, Colleen Loehr!

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