MASON CITY – Citizens can contribute this Saturday to support our local food bank by handing food or money to their postal mail carrier.
This Saturday, is help Stamp Out Hunger Day. The United States Postal Service and their letter carriers will be collecting food and financial donations to help Hawkeye Harvest Food Bank.
Residents of Mason City are asked to leave bags of healthy nonperishable and canned goods but no glass items in the donations by their mailbox on Saturday.
Mason City postal workers will pick up your donations and take to the post office, where it will be weighed and distributed to Hawkeye Harvest Food Bank.
Hawkeye Harvest Food Bank serves around 2,000 people a month, so the food collected during this drive is very important, as the food bank enters the summer . Hawkeye Harvest Food Bank is an entirely local non profit with 137 volunteers. They are the largest all volunteer non profit in the northern part of Iowa. Last year the local food bank distributed over 66,500 pounds of food and non perishable items, almost 100,00 pounds of bread and baked good and more than 14,000 half gallons of milk to more than 22,000 north Iowans.