Your help is needed in “Fighting Hunger and Feeding Hope” on Saturday, May 9 by joining with the Letter Carriers (NALC) union in its 23rd annual food drive–the largest one-day food drive in the nation. The effort locally is being held in partnership with Second Harvest Food Bank of Middle Tennessee.
Letter carriers will be collecting non-perishable food donations for the drive from postal customers in the Smithville area as they deliver mail along their postal routes. People are encouraged to leave a sturdy bag containing non-perishable foods such as canned soup; canned vegetables; canned meats and fish; pasta; peanut butter; rice or cereal next to their mailbox before the regular mail delivery on Saturday.
According to local Letter Carriers, food items can be left in your mail box for mail carriers to pick up or you may drop off your donations at the lobby of the Smithville Post Office. Food may also be left at 430 East Broad Street (Food Bank Building next to Dr. Burke’s Animal Clinic).
Carriers will bring the food to local food banks, pantries or shelters in DeKalb County. For more information, call Roger Young at the Smithville Post Office at 615-597-4781.
This food drive is the nation’s largest single-day collection effort and is held annually on the second Saturday in May in 10,000 cities and towns in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands and Guam.
Hunger affects about 49 million people around the country, including millions of children and senior citizens. One in six Tennesseans struggle with hunger each day. Again, all of the food donations collected by your post office will stay in your county.
Join the effort to feed the hungry
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