In the wake of major flooding in the area, many businesses in Cambridge, Vermont, were dealing with lost inventory. One of those businesses was the local grocer Cambridge Village Market. When the store’s basement completely flooded, they had to turn off their power and the clock started on all their refrigerated food going bad. So the market’s owners decided to put that food to good use.
Ron and Linda Frey, Cambridge Village Market’s owners, had all their perishable groceries loaded into trucks and delivered a few miles down the road to a diner in Fairfax to be given away to anyone in need of food. "All the perishable items were going to go to waste anyways,” Ron explains, “We’d much rather have the community be able to take as much as they can. It’s just the right thing to do.”
Dozens of people showed up to claim the free food and many expressed their appreciation for the Freys’ good deed on social media. Despite the difficult road ahead for the citizens of Cambridge, Ron is optimistic they’ll come together to pull through. “I am definitely one of those people that believes everything happens for a reason,” he says, “We just have to figure out what that reason is.”
Source: WCAX