September 24, 2025
Day Two Of Fall CAP- Community Service
text and photos by Region 8 Webmaster John Davis
Day Two of the 2025 Fall CAP meeting was a day of service. Participants were bussed to the San Antoinio Food Bank to help assemble sacks of food for distribution to those who are food insecure. With a motto of “Fighting Hunger and Feeding Hope” the San Antonio Food Bank was founded in 1980 and serves 29 counties in Southwest Texas. They provide food security to 100,000 people a week. Fighting hunger is there number one priority but they also serve to educate and provide assistance in many other ways. This is achieved through a variety of programs and resources available to families, individuals, seniors, children, and military members in need.
As with most relief organizations, they survive on a shoe string operating budget of less than 2% of their annual income. Because of this having volunteers to help assemble the food they distribute is important. The event was planned by UAW Region 8 CAP Representative Kevin Huddleston. “Community service is an important part of CAP,” Kevin stated. “It helps our members participate in making a difference and of course it helps the community.”
Local United Way officials helped facilitate the activity. About 90 participants in the Fall CAP took a bus to the San Antoino Food Bank and helped assemble bags of food to be distributed. “Today our members are going to build an assembly line to place food in bags,” Director Tim Smith stated. “It is our goal to help them build up a supply of food they can distribute quickly.”
Without volunteers, their two employees can assembly two pallets of food in a morning. Our group developed a plan to assembly a lot of food. San Antonio Food Bank Representative Mario Obledo expressed his thanks. “Volunteers play a vital role in what we do,” Obledo stated. “They allow us to keep our overhead low so more of our resources can be used helping those who are food insecure. We really appreciate Director Smith and the Region 8 members assistance.”
Our members did what they do best, which was make numbers. At the end of the morning they had 45,014 pounds of food, for a total of 1,440 bags of food, that would produce 40,499 meals and 32 pallets of food that contained 45 bags each. Click Here To Watch The Facebook Live
“Our folks always do a great job,” Director Smith stated. “Projects such as this send a message to our communities that we stand for the working class, we care about others and we support all workers. We ARE UAW!
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