Urban Gleaners mission: waste not, want not

Urban Gleaners mission: waste not, want not Published: Saturday, January 23, 2010, 4:10 PM Updated: Saturday, January 23, 2010, 10:09 PM Tom Hallman Jr. , The Oregonian View full sizeFaith Cathcart/The OregonianEva Ozbek, her backpack overflowing with bread... More

Urban Gleaners mission: waste not, want not Published: Saturday, January 23, 2010, 4:10 PM Updated: Saturday, January 23, 2010, 10:09 PM Tom Hallman Jr. , The Oregonian View full sizeFaith Cathcart/The OregonianEva Ozbek, her backpack overflowing with bread and pasta, waits with North Powellhurst classmates to go home on the school bus. Students at the school receive food from Urban Gleaners, a nonprofit that collects food from stores and restaurants that otherwise would go to waste. The kindergartners have their coats on and packs slung over their backs when teacher Katherine Macomber calls them to the front of the class for the drawing. It s been a long day, and parents are waiting in the hall to take them home. But the kids scurry to sit, knee to knee, in a semicircle. "So who s going to be the lucky one today?" Macomber asks. All hands go up. In the back, a petite woman, a stranger to the kids, steps toward school Principal Kate Barker, who has come to watch the drawing. Tra Less