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Working Together To ‘Stamp Out Hunger’ In Escambia, Santa Rosa
May 12, 2013
Area residents really delivered Saturday when asked to help the hungry during the annual “Stamp Out Hunger” food drive.
Tens of thousands of pounds of food were donated during the annual “Stamp Out Hunger” food drive with help of letter carriers and a small army of volunteers. In its 21st year, the food drive collected items in Escambia and Santa Rosa counties for Manna Food Pantries, Bay Area Food Bank, Warrington Emergency Aid, Acts Ministries of Gulf Breeze and We Care Ministries of Navarre United Methodist Church.
United Way of Escambia County, the U.S. Postal Service, National Association of Letter Carriers and Feeding America, Campbell’s Soup Company, Publix, AARP, Valpak, the National Rural Letter Carriers’ Association, the AFL-CIO, GLS Companies, Source Direct Plastics, Valassis/Red Plum and Uncle Bob’s Self Storage supported the drive this year.
Pictured: Volunteers unload and sort donations to the Stamp Out Hunger food drive Saturday at the Cantonment Post Office. Courtesy photos for NorthEscambia.com, click to enlarge.
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4 Responses to “Working Together To ‘Stamp Out Hunger’ In Escambia, Santa Rosa”
RS I am a rural carrier for the post office. I wanted to let you know your food may have been picked up by a volunteer. We sometimes pick up more food than we have room for with our mail and packages for the day. Volunteers will meet us on the route and take what we have picked up, and may collect other bags they see. In years past the letter carries union would supply us with a “thank you” note to be left in the mailbox to show it was a postal employee who had picked up the food. Thank you for donating and I hope it was picked up by someone who was there to help.
I never received the bad, didn’t know this was going on. Too bad, I would have loved to participate.
We placed the plastic bag with food items on our mailbox just prior to the time that our mail is normally delivered. A pickup truck towing a utility trailer pulled up and helped themselves to the bag, drove away and no doubt treated themselves to other bags in our neighborhood before the postman arrived. Next year, I will be better prepared to “greet” them in the manner they so richly deserve. Semper Fi
This is a Great project and thanks to all who are involved.
Many people are in situations that they did not create and have lost work due to cutbacks and increased insurance costs for businesses.
When we think of what we have there is also the question of What if my job was gone tomorrow?
Thank you to all who donated and to all who participated in Stamp Out Hunger.
You make a Big Difference.