HOWARD COUNTY, Md. — Volunteers from a retirement community in Columbia are helping the planet and saving a local food bank money.
They’re called the ‘Bag Ladies and Gentlemen,’ where every Thursday volunteers from Residences at Vantage Point are making a difference one brown paper bag at a time.
“To make sure that all these bags that come from the dining room with our meals and so on that are in them. That they actually end up being reused not recycled reused by the Howard County Food Bank,” said Jean Larson who lives at Residences at Vantage.
It started back in 2019 during the pandemic, when brown paper bags started accumulating in their apartments.
“One of our former residents, Sue Buswell, decided waste not want not. So, she was trying to find organizations that would accept the donations,” said Patti Hutton who is the Director of Marketing at Residences at …