The 2011 Letter Carrier’s Food Drive, to stamp out hunger, is scheduled for this coming Saturday, May 14, 2011. Make sure that you mark your calendar.
Good Cheer will be the recipient of the community donations to the Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive. Your local postal carrier will pick up the food you leave by your mailbox on Saturday, May 14th. The U.S. Postal Service is making it very easy to get involved; you just have to get it down to your mailbox. Since we are in a rural community we won’t be given any blue food bags but the post office will send out reminders on Tuesday May 10th!
Spread the word and get people to read the blog or checkout the Good Cheer Facebook pages. It doesn’t get any easier to help than this!
Postmaster Jack Harrington at the Langley post office stressed that people should put their food donations out early Saturday to insure that their packages are picked up. There are many of us who have post office boxes and Good Cheer will place donation barrels at the post offices on South Whidbey Island. We plan on having the barrels in place by Monday afternoon so this will give those with post office boxes more time to get involved.
This is an incredible donation day for the Good Cheer Food Bank. Our hopes are high and I’m sure that you will all come through; these type of donations are great fun and they provide more variety to our Food Bank clients. Please put out non-perishable foods that are not beyond their expiration date by your mailbox. Giving can be contagious so let’s talk to our neighbors and make a big statement here on the island.
Here is a video of why community support is so important. The woman speaking uses one of the food banks in Western Washington. They have a family of six and a newborn. They just missed qualifying for food stamps.
Thank you and thanks to the postal workers who make it all possible.
Good Cheer!
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