Letter Carrier Food Drive Tomorrow
Friday, May 9, 2014
(Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO)Before you head out to
enjoy the weekend tomorrow, don’t forget to set your bag of non-perishable
food
by your mailbox: your letter carrier will pick it up as part of the 22nd annual
Letter Carriers’ Food Drive. “Too many people in this country are still
going
hungry every day,” NALC President Fredric Rolando says. Food banks and
shelter
supplies tend to dwindle to critically low levels in the spring, notes
Community Services Agency Executive Director Kathleen McKirchy. “And because
many school meal programs are suspended during summer months, millions of
children are left scrambling to find alternate sources of nutrition.”
McKirchy
also says “it’s important to check expiration dates of your donations and
only
donate food that has not yet expired.”