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In Reply to: RE: Pinging U.S. Inmates: Help Stamp Out Hunger posted by Postal Grunt on May 08, 2008 at 20:07:52
I always end up leaving the Food Drive days with a good feeling that lessens the aching back from reaching down to scoop up the bags of food. Right now, this is the only drive that is national in scope. The Boy Scouts ran a food drive for a few years but that's long ago history now.
Locally, we expect the tally to reach around 6000 lbs. Three tons sounds like a lot of food for an area the size of Leavenworth, KS but now the two food banks are helping familes and senior citizens in the entire county. It's not just the poor and unemployed, the working poor and single parent families are in need too. The food donated today might last until Thanksgiving, Christmas if we're lucky.
Living in the middle of the grain belt of the USA, many local folks think that what we did today is unnecessary and didn't bother to put out even a can of tomato soup or a box of macaroni and cheese. But I've carried for enough years and on enough blocks to see the hungry children and impoverished elderly that use and need the services of the food banks. I'm immensely proud of what letter carriers and our friends among the rural letter carriers did today. I just wish that it wasn't necessary in this land of plenty.
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