Every Friday during the school year, more than 100 volunteers gather under the Colfax Avenue viaduct to fill bags of food with the nonprofit Food For Thought. Brian Connor has been volunteering with them for four years.
DENVER – Every Friday during the school year, more than 100 volunteers gather under the Colfax viaduct to fill bags of food, which are delivered to students at more than 70 schools each week to make certain students and their families have food to eat over the weekend.“We have not missed one flippin’ Friday,” founder Bob Bell said.“We saw kids that weren't eating,” Connor said.
While most of the volunteers show up to fill meal sacks, Connor has added other responsibilities over the years. That means he’s starting his Fridays even earlier. “He’s my 4:30 in the morning guy,” Bell said. “Down here every freakin’ Friday putting this food together.”“Nobody runs this thing. It just runs on the back of people who just show up and say, ‘I got that part, I got that part,’” Bell said.“He's getting everything ready, so when 100 people converge, it's organized and people have a good time,” Bell said.
Bell says it’s nice having someone around who see things a little differently, a role Connor easily fulfills. “He’s kinda the opposite of me. Like, I'm just kind of all over the board. He's very, he's a banker for God's sake,” Bell said with a laugh.“We function on the love of the folks that are here,” he said.Denver7 features a different Everyday Hero each week. To nominate a hero in your life, click here.
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