MASON CITY – A local food bank benefited from a volunteer effort this weekend and collected thousands of pounds of food to help feed the hungry.
Mason City’s Hawkeye Harvest Food Bank says today that they received more than 19,000 pounds of food and non-perishables altogether from the Help Stamp Out Hunger initiative held Saturday. The National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC) in Mason City and food bank volunteers collected food donations left at the mailboxes of generous North Iowans in order to provide assistance to the thousands of folks who are struggling with hunger.
Celebrating its 25th anniversary this year, the Stamp Out Hunger food drive is the nation’s largest single-day food drive, having collected more than one billion pounds of food since its inception as a national food drive in 1993.
Monday, the food bank reported that “more donations came in this morning” and the overall response to the program “was incredible. Thanks to everyone who donated food, non perishables or money. Huge Thanks to HyVee for putting out the plastic bags this year. Special thanks to our Newman Catholic high school students, all of our Volunteers and the mail carriers.”
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This is a great program with the benefits going directly to the people who need them. We always donate to this.