In 1955, Mim Hunt was running Lexington’s first food bank from her house. It would eventually become God’s Pantry, which serves Central and Eastern Kentucky.

On May 13 Reina and nonprofit group Jackson Women of Today, which founded the food pantry, announced that the pantry would be temporarily closed if a more suitable location wasn’t secured.

In addition to all that, she picks up rescue food from Whole Foods twice weekly. According to Kate Laxar, a Covenant Cupboard Food Pantry board member, Guthals’s main goal continues to be guaranteeing ...