Over the last three months, the Humboldt and District Food Bank has been set-up at a temporary location as construction on a new building continues.

The new building is going in place of the old building at 901 5th Avenue. Changes were necessary due to an older, deteriorating complex.

Chair of the food bank, Kevin Reiter gives an update on how construction is progressing.

"The roof is on, the walls are up, rough wiring is in. The gyprock is all in the building now and they are starting to do the mudding of the building," he explained. "Once they've done that, they can paint. Once it is painted, the rest of the electrical can be done. It's coming along quite nicely."

Reiter says an exact timeframe is not known at this point, but he estimates it could be the end of September when they are ready to operate out of the new building.

The food bank serves 90 families one week of groceries per month in the area. Until the new building is ready, they have been working out of the temporary spot at 1726 3rd Avenue.

Most associate donations to a food bank as non-perishable items, however, Reiter says that they are more than happy to accept any fresh garden vegetables that come their way.

"Some people have been bringing those in already. We've had potatoes, beets, cucumbers, carrots, tomatoes, zucchini, squash, that kind of thing," he stated. "We would just love to have any fresh vegetables that people have too much of in their garden. If they would like to donate, we would love to have those."

With the work ongoing, and people continuing to generously donate items and money, Reiter says that community support is what they rely on.

"The workers, all the companies, subcontractors that have been working on it. I just want to give a big thanks to all of them because they have been working really hard on it," he explained. "I also want to thank the people who have been donating money to the building of the new food bank, we really appreciate that."

Reiter says that families they serve come from as far east to Watson, Spalding and Naicam and north to Lake Lenore.

You can hear more from Reiter below.