Post Office Hosts ‘Stamp Out Hunger’ Drive Saturday
May 9, 2017 at 6:35 p.m.
By Deb McAuliffe Sprong-
The Stamp Out Hunger food drive, held the second Saturday in May, is in its 25th year. The effort collected 80.1 million pounds of food in 2016, according to the postal service, and has gathered 1.5 billion pounds of food since the first drive in 1993.
Kosciusko County has been a big part of the national effort, according to Jill Hunter, a supervisor at the Warsaw post office.
“We’ve had a very, very good response,” she said.
Postcards reminding county residents about the food drive are going out in the mail, she said. In addition, carriers will be delivering plastic Owen’s bags for Warsaw city and rural residents to put their nonperishable food donations in.
Hunter said this year organizers are asking people to put their donations by the mailbox. Items will be picked up at carriers’ normal delivery time and taken to local food banks.
Suggested food items include canned soup, canned vegetables, peanut butter, pasta, rice and cereal.
Hunter says the community’s generosity has been overwhelming, particularly in low-income areas.
“People who have struggled on their own really think about those things, when they’ve been there before,” she said.
All donations to the food drive are tax-deductible.
For more information about Stamp Out Hunger, visit www.feedingamerica. org or www.nalc.org/community-service/food-drive.
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The Stamp Out Hunger food drive, held the second Saturday in May, is in its 25th year. The effort collected 80.1 million pounds of food in 2016, according to the postal service, and has gathered 1.5 billion pounds of food since the first drive in 1993.
Kosciusko County has been a big part of the national effort, according to Jill Hunter, a supervisor at the Warsaw post office.
“We’ve had a very, very good response,” she said.
Postcards reminding county residents about the food drive are going out in the mail, she said. In addition, carriers will be delivering plastic Owen’s bags for Warsaw city and rural residents to put their nonperishable food donations in.
Hunter said this year organizers are asking people to put their donations by the mailbox. Items will be picked up at carriers’ normal delivery time and taken to local food banks.
Suggested food items include canned soup, canned vegetables, peanut butter, pasta, rice and cereal.
Hunter says the community’s generosity has been overwhelming, particularly in low-income areas.
“People who have struggled on their own really think about those things, when they’ve been there before,” she said.
All donations to the food drive are tax-deductible.
For more information about Stamp Out Hunger, visit www.feedingamerica. org or www.nalc.org/community-service/food-drive.
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