Chinatown food bank loses over 2,000 pounds of food after power outage decimates supply

Staffers had to toss out more than 2,000 pounds of food after a power outage on Jan. 23.

SEATTLE — A recent power outage did more than just turn out the lights in Seattle’s Chinatown-International District. 

It also destroyed a stockpile of frozen food at a food bank, hurting those who need help.

“To walk in and see it empty,” said Miguel Saldin, Interim Director of Nutrition Programs with Asian Counseling Referral Service (ACRS). “It’s a very sad, gloomy situation.”

An empty feeling, filling up with disappointment. 

“This was full of needed proteins for our community members there was a lot of fish, a

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