The founder of the Corbin Community Backpack program, which sends food home each weekend with local food insecure children, was honored during Monday’s Corbin City Commission meeting.
Corbin Mayor Suzie Razmus presented Doris Moore with a Corbin Colonel for her work serving the community.
“Doris Moore has done an amazing job for our community. She was the originator of the Corbin Community Backpack program that started in 2005. That has been 20 years that she has been serving the kids in the community that don’t have enough to eat,” Razmus said.
Moore, who began working in the Corbin school system in 1967, started the program along with other members of the First Christian Church, and she has served as board chair since that time.
“I think a lot of us were lucky enough to have her as a teacher. Her heart for children is unmatched. Her perseverance and her hard work not only started something like the Corbin Community Backpack program but actually kept it going for so long and then expanding it to the other schools in the area,” Razmus said.
When the program first started, it was packing about 25 bags per week. Now the program packs over 900 bags per week.
“Doris Moore has been so instrumental in starting it and keeping it going. The only thing we can do is say thank you and we love you,” Razmus said.
Moore was quick to point out that it wasn’t just her.
“There are many, many people, who deserve the recognition for doing the backpack program. I was board chair, but there were just so many people,” Moore added.
