COLDWATER, MI (WTVB) – Branch County’s four food pantries will be stocking their shelves Saturday with a big boost from the public and the men and women who deliver your mail. It’s the 25th annual Letter Carriers’ Stamp Out Hunger this weekend and is the nation’s largest single day food drive effort with 80 million pounds of food collected in 2016.
In Coldwater, the letter carriers this week placed plastic bags in mailboxes to be used in the drive and should be put out by the mailbox. The bags will be taken to the Post Office and then trucked over to the Branch Area Food Pantry on Pierson Street. Volunteers are needed at the Pantry between 10:00 a.m.and 5:00 p.m. to help unload the donations.
In Quincy, high school students are taking part in the event and the bags of canned goods should be placed on your front porch and they will be taken to the Union Church food pantry.
The Bronson food pantry collection will end up at the Community Theater or the Post Office. Bags should placed on porches in the city and by mail boxes in rural locations.
For Union City and Sherwood, it’s the same pickup arrangement with the letter carriers taking the collections to the local food pantry in Union City at the Our Savior Lutheran Church.
