RIVERSIDE-BROOKFIELD $1.00
Vol. 40, No. 26
And we marched
July 9, 2025
Pages 6-7
A Brookfield food pantry is ‘determined’ to feed amid federal cuts Share Food Share Love could see 50% more neighbors in need without more food to give
Roger Nothnagel has been an auxiliary policeman, electrical inspector and firefighter photographer
By TRENT BROWN Staff Reporter
The head of Brookfield’s Share Food Share Love food pantry said federal slashes to food assistance funding, and cuts to Medicaid and food stamps included in the Trump administration’s just-approved One Big Beautiful Bill Act, could have disastrous consequences at the local level. “It’s going to impact us one way or another. If the Greater Chicago Food Depository gets hit badly, obviously that’s going to limit what they can do to provide food to us, so we’re going to have to resource that from the public, either through donations of cash or food,” said John Dumas, the pantry’s administrative director. He told the Landmark Share Food Share Love receives about 75% of the food it gives out from the depository, which distributes food to pantries, soup kitchens, shelters and more across Chicagoland to combat hunger. In turn, the depository obtained about See FOOD on page 4
Part-time Brookfield worker retires after 50 years By TRENT BROWN Staff Reporter
TODD BANNOR
CHALLENGES AHEAD: John Dumas of Share Food Share Love says federal cuts to food pantries will impact its work.
Brookfield’s part-time jack-of-all-trades has officially left the building. Roger Nothnagel first joined the village in April 1975 as an auxiliary police officer. In 1980, he was hired as an electrical inspector for Brookfield, a role he maintained for decades until his retirement this year. “Back then, the building department was run by the fire department, so, essentially, I was a paid-on-call firefighter,” he told the Landmark. “It wasn’t too much longer after that, the building department got transferred back to a separate department in the village. I stayed with See RETIRES on page 8
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