{"id":155565,"date":"2026-02-08T01:20:17","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T01:20:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/155565\/"},"modified":"2026-02-08T01:20:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T01:20:17","slug":"more-than-700-families-fed-during-san-antonio-food-bank-boeing-distribution-event-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/155565\/","title":{"rendered":"More than 700 families fed during San Antonio Food Bank, Boeing distribution event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">SAN ANTONIO \u2013 More than 700 families lined up at the Boeing Center at Tech Port on Saturday morning for a food <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ksat.com\/news\/local\/2026\/02\/05\/san-antonio-food-bank-boeing-team-up-for-mobile-food-distribution-this-weekend\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.ksat.com\/news\/local\/2026\/02\/05\/san-antonio-food-bank-boeing-team-up-for-mobile-food-distribution-this-weekend\/\">distribution event<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">The event was made possible by a $100,000 grant from The Boeing Company.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">\u201cWhile it\u2019s a lot of money, that just shows the need of our community and where our community members are,\u201d said Richard Delgado Jr, the Senior Investor at Boeing Company.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">See Delagdo\u2019s full live interview with KSAT 12 in the video player below.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Cars lined up as early as 5 a.m. to receive fresh fruits and vegetables, pantry staples, proteins and dairy products.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">\u201cWithout them, what would happen to all of us? To me, this is like a big organization family. Especially the Food bank,\u201d said Roger Gomez. \u201cThey helped us a lot.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">The Boeing Company plans to have two more food distributions over the next few months to address food insecurity in San Antonio\u2019s low-income areas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">\u201cThere\u2019s so much of a need,\u201d one person in line told KSAT. \u201cFor everyone who is here, there\u2019s a reason why we\u2019re here. Groceries are overpriced. When you go to the store, you buy a bag, it\u2019s $35. It\u2019s hard.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">\u201cEvery time it gets more expensive,\u201d Marelyn Cruz told KSAT. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">The San Antonio Food Bank will share <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/safoodbank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/safoodbank\">online<\/a> where and when the next distribution event will be. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Read also:<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 by KSAT &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN ANTONIO \u2013 More than 700 families lined up at the Boeing Center at Tech Port on Saturday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":155566,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[2067,26582,21429,64109,82,8332,84,83,15378],"class_list":["post-155565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-affordability","tag-boeing","tag-boeing-center-at-tech-port","tag-port-sa","tag-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio-food-bank","tag-san-antonio-headlines","tag-san-antonio-news","tag-southwest-side"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155565\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/155566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}