AMARILLO, Texas (KAMR/KCIT) — Warren Coble is smiling extra big today.
“This is one of the amazing things that you dream about. You just dream about it,” said Coble, the Executive Director of the Hilltop Senior Citizens Center.
He is smiling and profiling because Hilltop recently received $300,000 in donations from the High Plains Food Bank.
“They chose us, and I don’t know how they did it, I don’t know why they did it, but it’s help. It’s going to be a great, great avenue for the city of Amarillo, because we serve all over. I’m so grateful,” said Coble.
Coble told MyHighPlains.com that the money will allow Hilltop to be able to do some much needed upgrades to the facility.
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“When they first came in, they said, ‘Think big, think big.’ What we’re going to do is expand on the north side. It’s going to be 14 feet wide by 45 feet long, and that’s just going to have nothing but food and refrigerators in it,” he explained.
The funds come from a grant through Feeding America, a national network that the food bank is a part of.
“When we got notification that we were going to receive this funding through the network, it’s not something that we applied for,” said Zack Wilson, Executive Director of the High Plains Food Bank. “It was directed to us, and we were like, ‘wow, this will be a game changer.’”
It’s a game-changer that Wilson said couldn’t have come at a better time.