Gainesville Food Drive May 10th, 2008

I wanted to revisit the Gainesville Food Drive that took place last month and congratulate everyone on their hard work. Everyone pitched in and even the postal workers were collecting food from mailboxes.

The Gainesville Sun covered the story here, read a quick exceprt and head to the Gainesville Sun for the full article:

Today, anyone with a mailbox can be a humanitarian.

Those who want to help fight hunger in the area need not trek to local food pantries or soup kitchens to do their part. Instead, they can just leave donations of nonperishable foods in a bag at the mailbox today.

In the 16th annual “Stamp Out Hunger” food drive sponsored by the National Association of Letter Carriers, Gainesville mail carriers will pick up donations of nonperishable food items from local mailboxes today to deliver to the Chattahoochee Baptist Association’s Good Samaritan Food Ministry.

The nationwide food drive comes at the perfect time of year for area food banks, when the need is greater and the donations are smaller, said Natasha Daniels, public relations manager for the Atlanta Community Food Bank.

“We’re going into what is known as ‘summer hunger,’” Daniels said.

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