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How Shauna Devenport, for over 30 years, has run a food bank on her front porch.
In 1992, at a grocery store near her Salt Lake City home, Shauna was picking up baked goods set aside for her to deliver to a local food bank.
While she was doing this, a clerk told her that each day, many loaves of bread at their expiration date, were being thrown in the garbage.
"I cried all the way home thinking of the waste," Shauna told The Washington Post.
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Shauna returned to the store and asked for that day's expired bread. She then put it on her front porch and spread the word anyone could have it for free.
It quickly disappeared.
After that, each day she went to the store and picked up the expired bread. "I'd put it out and an hour or so later, it was gone."
"People would show up from all over. I saw there was a real need out there."
A mother of four, Shauna asked her neighbors if they would help her pick up the bread, and about dozen people volunteered to do so.
Now over 30 years later and despite some health issues, 67-year-old Shauna is still going strong.
Over time, her expired bread runs grew into picking up excess produce, canned goods, milk at its expiration date and more.
Today, the food comes not only from grocery stores but from churches and rescue missions. And she even receives clothes, toys and sporting goods donations.
Shauna's unloads boxes of donated goods Photo: deseret.com
And Shauna puts her all into it.
"When somebody tells you, 'My kitchen cabinets were empty and now I can feed my family,' that's life changing. That's when I know I have to keep going."
Editor's Note:
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