A few weeks before Robyn DellaValle retired from the Southern Regional School District last year, she was talking to Tracey Adams about the school’s internal food bank. For some 10 years, DellaValle was the food bank’s operations manager, but was uncertain who would take it over.

“Robyn’s a good friend of mine, and when she told me she was retiring I felt compelled to carry on what she had started,” said Adams, a math teacher in the district.