From 5,000 hot meals a day to food boxes, CV Rescue Mission answers holiday call

Scott Wolf saw something at the Coachella Valley Rescue Mission this year that he never wanted to see.

“We have a dry food pantry that we use to store the food that we distribute in our weekly food boxes that we give out,” said Wolf, director of development for the Rescue Mission in Indio. “For the first time in a very long time, and I am talking years, for the first time this year in the early fall, we were actually able to see the floor and the backs of the walls. That’s how bare our shelves were because of the increased demand.”