UNDATED (WTAQ) – It’s time to start filling those plastic bags that you got in the mail about a week ago, with non-perishable food items.
Saturday marks the 24th Annual National Association of Letter Carriers Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive.
Letter carriers will collect non-perishable food donations as they deliver mail along their routes.
Tim Voelker is the Assistant Food Drive Coordinator and says there’s a growing need for food assistance throughout Brown County.
“It shows in figures that the need is there and that’s why we’ve been doing it ever since it came out 24 years ago nationally.”
He says to leave the plastic bags by your mail box and the carriers will start collecting them at 9 a.m.
If you forget to put out your food donation this weekend, pick-up will continue through the week of May 16th.
Last year, 213,000 pounds of food was collected throughout Northeast Wisconsin through this event.
Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive is the nation’s largest single-day food drive, held annually on the second Saturday in May.
