North Plains Food Bank

10/31/2026

Today is the day! Join us at 3pm for loads of family fun! Pumkin carving contest, trunk-or-treating, a not-so-haunted food bank house, and more!

10/31/2026

Friday 10/30: Kick off your Halloween weekend with Stan Corliss. Music starts at 7pm. Come in costume and come in early for some great food and drinks. We expect it to fill up.

Saturday 10/31: Happy Halloween! Trick are treaters are welcome. Come grab some food and enjoy the festivities!

10/30/2026

Looking for something fun to do this Halloween? Join us downtown North Plains for loads of family fun! Pumpkin carving contest, Trunk-or-treating, Food Bank haunted house and more!

10/29/2026

🚨 NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS: PLEASE WATCH FOR THIS DONATION SCAM! 🚨

Today, North Plains Food Bank received an email offering a **$4,200 donation** from people identifying themselves as “Angela & Austen Zodiacs.”

It sounded like a wonderful gift for the families we serve. However, after researching the message, we found a BBB Scam Tracker report containing **nearly identical wording**, using different names and a different donation amount.

⚠️ **The email we received displayed:**
**Sender:** King Queen
**Email:** [email protected]
**Subject:** Donation

The message says a “financial associate” will mail a paper check and asks for our organization’s name, mailing address, and bank name.

**I also searched their names on Facebook and found warnings from two other nonprofit organizations—Mastiff Rescue of Florida, Inc. and Detroit City Kitty Rescue—about the same scam.**

According to those warnings, this is how it works:

➡️ Someone pledges a donation.
➡️ The check arrives for **more than the promised amount**.
➡️ They ask the nonprofit to send the “extra” money back before the bank finishes verifying the check.
➡️ The check is returned unpaid, leaving the nonprofit at risk of losing any money it sent back.

**We have received the email offer; we have not confirmed the sender’s identity. The matching reports are a serious warning.** Watch for the wording and behavior—not just this email address, because names and addresses can change.

**Never return an overpayment or forward money at an unknown donor’s request.** Contact your financial institution and let it handle any questionable check.

**Money appearing as available in your account does NOT mean a check is legitimate.** A fraudulent check may be discovered weeks later.

Never share banking credentials, verification codes, or account information.

Nonprofits work incredibly hard to stretch every dollar and care for our communities. A generous donation offer brings so much hope, which makes this kind of deception especially heartbreaking. Money lost to a scam is money that cannot help the people and animals depending on us.

**Please share this warning with food banks, animal rescues, churches, community groups, and other nonprofit organizations. Let’s help protect one another!** ❤️

Organizations whose warnings I found:
• Mastiff Rescue of Florida, Inc.: https://www.facebook.com/mastiffrescueofflorida
• Detroit City Kitty Rescue: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100086465997955

Matching BBB report:
https://www.bbb.org/scamtracker/lookupscam/1216982

FTC information about fake check scams:
https://consumer.ftc.gov/articles/how-spot-avoid-and-report-fake-check-scams

PM me if you would like to read the email.

Fake checks might look like business or personal checks, cashier’s checks, money orders, or a check delivered electronically.

10/29/2026

Bring your carved pumpkin to the North Plains Boo Bash and enter to win a prize!
Pumpkins should be delivered to the North Plains Food Bank by 2pm on October 31st. The community will vote on their favorites and winners will be annouced at 6pm.
Join the fun with trunk-or-treating and more!

10/28/2026

Our amazing volunteer Carollee has a serendipitous story of how she became a volunteer for the Food Bank. In 2024 she found a newsletter from the Food Bank about them collecting for holiday meals. Carollee called the Food Bank to donate and met the director Lora. After the holidays, Carollee visited the Food Bank and was so impressed and felt the need to be a part of such a well needed service. When connected with the volunteer coordinator at the time, Carollee discovered it was someone she had worked with 40+ years ago at a company in Florida! Carollee was added to the volunteer schedule and the rest is history!
She said "I have never had to worry about whether I or my family would have enough to eat. This project that Lora has taken on and continues to expand has opened my eyes to just how widespread hunger in our community and beyond. Volunteering helps me feel connected to North Plains. It has allowed me to make friends in a town where I knew no one. I am happy that I can play a small part in such a worthy cause."
Thank you so much for all you do Carollee. The Food Bank is honored to have you as a volunteer! 💚

10/24/2026

Join us this Halloween for our first annual
👻 NORTH PLAINS BOO BASH 👻
📅 Saturday, October 31st
⏰ 3:00 PM – 6:00 PM
📍 Downtown North Plains – Along Commercial Street, from NW 314th Avenue down to Main Street
🎃 Presented by the North Plains Business Alliance
🎃 PUMPKIN CARVING CONTEST – SHOW OFF YOUR CREATIVITY!
Get those creative juices flowing and carve your spookiest, funniest, or most amazing pumpkin!
Bring your already-carved pumpkin downtown by 2:00 PM to enter our community pumpkin carving contest.
We will have three categories:
🎃 Kindergarten – 6th Grade
🎃 7th – 12th Grade
🎃 Adults
The best part? YOU get to vote for your favorites! Everyone attending will have the opportunity to vote for their favorite pumpkins, and we'll have prizes for the winners!
Whether your pumpkin is scary, silly, or just plain spectacular, we want to see it!
🍬 TRICK-OR-TREATING & TRUNK-OR-TREATING!
Put on your favorite Halloween costume and come collect treats!
Our downtown businesses will be joining in the fun, welcoming trick-or-treaters, and helping make this a special afternoon for our community.
We'll also have decorated vehicles lined up for Trunk-or-Treat, with plenty of candy and Halloween surprises!
👻 DARE TO ENTER THE HAUNTED FOOD BANK?
The North Plains Food Bank is getting a SPOOKY makeover for Halloween!
Stop by our haunted house if you dare! You never know what creepy surprises might be lurking around the next corner. Even the vegetables may have come back to haunt us! 🧟🥕
And don't worry, parents! We're keeping the spooky fun family-friendly and not too scary for your littles! We want everyone, even our youngest ghosts and goblins, to enjoy the Halloween magic. Expect more giggles than screams, with just enough spooky surprises to make it fun!
🚗 WE STILL NEED TRUNK-OR-TREAT VOLUNTEERS!
Would you like to decorate your car and hand out treats? We'd love to have you join us! This is a great opportunity for families, businesses, organizations, and neighbors to get involved.
To sign up, please call or text Lora at 503-442-8060.

10/24/2026

🎃👻 NORTH PLAINS, GET THOSE PUMPKINS READY!! 🎃👻

We are getting SO excited for the FIRST ANNUAL NORTH PLAINS BOO BASH, and we want to see just how creative our community can be!

🎃 IT'S TIME FOR OUR PUMPKIN CARVING CONTEST! 🎃

Whether your pumpkin is spooky, silly, funny, or an incredible work of art, we want you to bring it down and show it off!

🏆 THREE AGE CATEGORIES — THREE WINNERS!

🎃 Kindergarten – 6th Grade
🎃 7th – 12th Grade
🎃 Adults

🏆 PRIZES FOR THE WINNING PUMPKIN IN EACH CATEGORY!

🍺 ADULT GRAND PRIZE: A $25 gift certificate to Rogue Brewery!

🗳️ OUR COMMUNITY PICKS THE WINNERS!

That's right! YOU get to vote for your favorite pumpkins! Bring the whole family, admire everyone's amazing creations, and cast your votes. The pumpkins with the most votes in each category will win!

📅 SATURDAY, OCTOBER 31ST

🎃 Pumpkin Drop-Off: By 2:00 PM
🕒 Contest & Community Voting: 3:00 – 6:00 PM
🏆 WINNERS ANNOUNCED AT 6:00 PM!
🎃 PLEASE PICK UP YOUR PUMPKINS AT 6:00 PM!

📍 North Plains Food Bank
31392 NW Commercial Street, North Plains

✨ AND THE FUN DOESN'T STOP WITH PUMPKINS!

Come dressed in your favorite Halloween costume and enjoy the North Plains Boo Bash! We'll have downtown trick-or-treating, trunk-or-treat, carnival games and prizes, and a Spooky House at the North Plains Food Bank that's not too scary for the littles!

❤️ This is all about bringing our wonderful North Plains community together, making memories, and having some good old-fashioned Halloween fun!

So grab those pumpkins, get carving, and show us what you've got! 🎃

Even if you don't enter a pumpkin, we need YOUR votes to choose our winners!

🎉 Presented by the North Plains Business Alliance

👻 PLEASE SHARE THIS POST! Tag your friends, neighbors, and anyone who loves Halloween! Let's fill downtown North Plains with incredible pumpkins and make our first Boo Bash a Halloween to remember!

10/22/2026

Huge shoutout to Henk, one of our amazing volunteers! 🚚 Henk spends hours every week picking up donations for the food bank. He’s an absolute pro with the pallet jack and always has something positive to say. Hank, we are so grateful for you and our entire volunteer team. The food bank simply wouldn't exist without you! 🙌

10/20/2026

We urgently need volunteer help on Wednesdays from 9:30am - 3pm to help with clients. No experience needed! If you can help, please email us at [email protected] or give us a call at 503-442-8060.