Put out canned food with your mail
— Food Bank holding big drive Saturday
By Trina Kleist
City Editor, trinak@theunion.com
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8:44 a.m. PT May 9, 2008
Saturday is the yearly National Postal Carriers Food Drive — and locally, it’s the most important food drive of the year for the Food Bank of Nevada County.
Supplies at the food bank — which provides staples such as bread, pasta, rice, canned goods and frozen meat for 1,460 families every month — run low this time of year. Volunteers there are hoping to build up their supplies to last through the end of the year, Executive Director Toni Thompson said.
Food Bank volunteers asking residents to place nonperishable items at nearby mailboxes (not in them) for pickup on Saturday.
Checks can be made out to the Food Bank of Nevada County and mailed to 578 Sutton Way, #187, Grass Valley, CA 95945.
Volunteers deliver food at distribution centers in Grass Valley, Penn Valley, North San Juan, Washington and Truckee, Thompson said. The nonprofit organization also has a school-based snack program, a summer lunch program in area parks, and a program to deliver food to seniors, Thompson said.
