The volunteers who send food home with students in the Aubrey and Pilot Point area for weekends and school breaks say the number of families asking for help keeps creeping up.
Kim Groff, who represents both the Aubrey and the Pilot Point Lovepacs chapters, laid out the numbers on Oct. 20 at a meeting of the Lake Ray Roberts Rotary Club, The Post-Signal reported Thursday. The local chapter now provides about 330 bags of food each week, she said, and roughly 59 of them go to families in Pilot Point.
The group's Krugerville pantry supplies nearby campuses in both Aubrey ISD and Denton ISD, and Groff said the totals for those schools were larger than Pilot Point's. Over the 2025-26 school year, Lovepacs gave Pilot Point families 294 boxes and 2,556 weekend bags, food worth about $17,900.
The aim, Groff told the Rotarians, is to cover the days children are away from the breakfast and lunch they get at school: long weekends and the Thanksgiving, Christmas and spring breaks. Families who are squeezed by rising fixed bills tend to cut back on food first, she said, because it is the one expense with some give in it.
Students are referred through their schools. Counselors work with families to identify who needs help, so the count grows over the course of the year, and Groff said the weekly figure probably understates the need. She described the need as "just inching up."
For Thanksgiving, she projected that Lovepacs will hand out 110 boxes to Pilot Point ISD schools.
