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F.I.S.H. receives a `mountain of food' from postal carrier food
drive |
Postal carriers deliver more than 12,000 pounds to
emergency food agency in Newberg |
By Amanda
Newman, Newberg Graphic intern
E-mail Amanda at
anewman@eaglenewspapers.com
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Newberg Friends In Service of Humanity (F.I.S.H.) received a
mountain of food, weighing more than 12,000 pounds, from the
National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC) Food Drive last
weekend.
Monday’s calculations put the weekend’s donations at 12,774 pounds
of food and $70 in cash, according to F.I.S.H. volunteer and
secretary Gwen Schwabe. However, she said, “We still have food
coming in!”
The NALC Food Drive is
an annual event that takes place across the nation. Community
members leave bags of nonperishable food by their mailboxes on the
day of the drive, held May 12 this year. Postal workers collect the
food and donate it to local food banks in what is one of the
nation’s largest one-day food drives.
“We greatly appreciate the postal workers for doing that,” Schwabe
said. “Our shelves will be nice and full now for the summer. A lot
of people don’t realize our needs in the summer, but people are
hungry 12 months a year,” she said. She added that “as the holiday
season approaches, people seem to be more aware of the need for
help.”
“I think the way the post office handles it — everybody in town
receives notice about the need for food, so the entire community is
reached, and the drive is held on the weekend — is convenient for
people,” Schwabe said.
Dundee postal workers collected an additional 2,500 pounds of food
this year, which was donated to Promise Pantry in Dundee. Last year,
donations from both cities went to Newberg F.I.S.H., which collected
a total of 16,000 pounds.
Other food drives that benefit Newberg F.I.S.H. each year include
drives run by C.S. Lewis Academy, 2nd Street Community Church and
local Boy Scout troops.
Newberg F.I.S.H. is a nonprofit organization staffed entirely by
volunteers. Since 1970, the organization has provided food and other
forms of assistance to Newberg and Dundee residents who qualify for
aid under the United States poverty chart. Last month, F.I.S.H.
distributed food to 226 families. |
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From
May 16, 2007, Newberg Graphic
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