Letter carriers to collect food donations Saturday for local food bank
The annual National Association of Letter Carriers' Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive is held on the second Saturday of May each year.
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Second Harvest Food Bank of Northeast Tennessee is encouraging people in the area to donate shelf-stable food items to help their neighbors. Non-perishable food donations should be placed in a bag on or near the mailbox, and the letter carriers will collect them.
'There is an urgent need for food donations right now,' Rhonda Chafin, the executive director of the food bank, said in a news release. 'The food bank is providing food to over 43,000 people each month, and more donations are necessary to ensure that we are able to keep up with the demand.'
According to Second Harvest, the Letter Carriers' Food Drive is the largest food drive for the local food bank every year. In 2024, more than 36,000 pounds of food were collected to fight food insecurity in Northeast Tennessee.
Second Harvest hopes to exceed that amount in 2025.
The National Association of Letter Carriers donated $1,000 to the food bank to start the 2025 event.
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