It was getting pretty steamy this week at The River Food Pantry on Madison’s north side after thieves stole copper tubing and condensers from two industrial-size air conditioners there, disabling the cooling system.
“It was brutal in here yesterday, over 90 degrees,” pantry co-founder Jenny Czerkas told me Tuesday amid a busy food pantry session. The crowd that attracts — in addition to heat from the open kitchen where daily meals are prepared — means the building at 2201 Darwin Road warms up pretty quickly.