Letter carriers planning annual food drive

Posted on May 4, 2016
Letter carriers from Central Illinois will join their colleagues nationwide in their annual food drive next Saturday. (WJBC file photo)
Letter carriers from Central Illinois will join their colleagues nationwide in their annual food drive May 14. (WJBC file photo)

By Greg Halbleib

BLOOMINGTON – Local letter carriers are planning their annual drive to help the hungry.

The annual nationwide food drive is May 14. You’re asked to place non-perishable food and personal items at your mailbox. Local drive organizer Kim Marshall said letter carriers will collect the donations May 14 and deliver them for distribution.

“Midwest Food Bank allows us to use their facility to distribute to 18 food banks in Bloomington-Normal,” Marshall said, “We have 24 outlying communities all through the Central Illinois area that we distribute bags to and they take their food to their local food banks.”

The drive collected 80,000 pounds of food locally last year. Marshall says letter carriers will deliver bags for the donations early next week to most residences. The bags will have information about the drive.

Greg Halbleib can be reached at [email protected].

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