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Letter Carrier Food Drive Today, Help The Hungry
May 9, 2009
Last year, North Escambia area residents contributed over 20,000 pounds of food at their mailboxes for the Stamp Out Hunger food drive, and today is the time to do it again.
Mail carriers will be collecting food tomorrow at mailboxes across North Escambia and across the nation for the 17th annual Stamp Out Hunger food drive.
Residents can participate in the annual event by leaving a bag of nonperishable food by their mailboxes for their mail carrier to collect.
NALC Food Drive is a national food drive sponsored by the Letter Carrier’s Union and conducted annually all over the country on the same day. The local NALC drive benefits ACTS Ministries, Bay Area Food Bank, Manna Food Pantries, St. Vincent de Paul, Warrington Emergency Aid and We Care Ministry. For Manna, it is the largest food drive of the year and comprises almost 30 percent of annual food donations.
Here’s a breakdown of the food collected last year along the routes at each North Escambia area post office:
- Cantonment: 14,098 pounds
- Century: 1,906 pounds
- Jay: 1,998 pounds
- McDavid: 2,000 pounds
- Molino: 608 pounds
Pictured above: Food awaits collection in the Stamp Out Hunger food drive last year on Wiggins Lake Road in Walnut Hill. NorthEscambia.com file photo, click to enlarge.
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