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Letter carriers to collect food donations Saturday for Streator pantry · Illinois Valley - Shaw Local

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  Speaker 1: Letter carriers to collect food donations Saturday for Straight Or Pantry.
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  Written by Shaw Local News Network, This article is being
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  Letter carriers across Streeter will collect non perishable food donations
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  on Saturday, May ninth as part of the National Association
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  of Letter Carriers Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive, an annual
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  effort to combat food insecurity in communities nationwide. The drive,
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  now in its thirty second year, asks residents to leave
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  bags of non perishable food by their mailboxes on Saturday,
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  May ninth. Letter carriers will pick up donations while delivering mail,
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  or return with a vehicle if the donation is too
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  large for their mail bag. Donations can also be dropped
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  off at the street or post US office. All food
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  collected locally goes directly to the Straight or Land Food
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  Pantry to help residents in need. Letter carriers travel through
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  the community's daily often coming face to face with a
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  sad reality for too many hunger. The Straight Or Post
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  Office said in a statement the timing of the Spring
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  food drive is critical. Food banks and pantries typically receive
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  the majority of donations during the Thanksgiving and Christmas holiday seasons.
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  By springtime, many pantries are depleted, entering the summer low
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  on supplies at a time when school breakfast and lunch
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  programs are not available to children in need. Nationally, the
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  drive has collected well over one point nine billion pounds
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  of food over thirty two years. More than forty four
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  million Americans are unsure where their next meal will come from,
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  according to the letter Carriers. More than thirteen million are children,
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  and nearly five point five million seniors over age sixty
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  are food insecure. For more information, called a Straighter Post
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  Office at eight point five six seven two two six
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