Area residents drove and donated to impress Friday night in Panora for Retro LUX Salon & Boutique’s Scoop the Loop: Cruise for a Cause Food Drive.

Salon owner Kellie Flanery partnered with Panora Mobile Food Pantry Organizer Tom Bacon to incorporate a drive-through non-perishable food drop off behind the Veteran’s Auditorium and Community Center during the cruise downtown. Bacon says the use of the pantry has greatly increased recently, as he recalls when he started organizing it three years ago around 40 families would attend, and now the number has grown to 135. Bacon comments on the reception they received Friday night, “It’s really good, I’m surprised at the turn out. I shouldn’t be but I am. It’s been a really good turn out and people have been generous with their donations.”

Volunteers from the Panthers on the Prowl for a Cure and Guthrie County Hospital and Clinics Relay for Life teams helped receive the food with face masks and gloves. The Panora Mobile Food Pantry is open on the first Thursday of the month, every other month, from 4-6 p.m. at the Community Center and shall return in July. For more photos from the Scoop the Loop: Cruise for a Cause Food Drive, visit the Raccoon Valley Radio Facebook page.