Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive this Saturday, May 14th

 On Saturday, May 14, 2011, Campbell Soup Company will again join forces with the National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC) to Stamp Out Hunger across America, providing assistance to the millions of Americans who are struggling to put food on their tables every day.

Now in its 19th year nationally, the Stamp Out Hunger food drive, which is always held on the second Saturday in May, has become the nation’s largest single-day food drive. In 2010, drive organizers representing nearly 1,500 U.S. Post Office branches across the country, collected a record-setting total of 77.1 million pounds of food donations. This pushed the historical total for the drive to more than one billion pounds of food.

To participate in the Stamp Out Hunger drive here in Fowler, citizens are encouraged to leave a sturdy bag containing non-perishable foods, such as canned soup, canned vegetables, pasta, rice or cereal next to their mailbox prior to the time of regular mail delivery on Saturday, May 14, 2011. The local letter carriers and volunteers will collect these food donations as they deliver the mail and will take them to the local Benton County Food Pantry.