The 27th annual Stamp Out Hunger food drive by the National Association of Letter Carriers, the largest one-day food drive in the country, collected 25,550 pounds of food items for local pantries in Greater New Bedford, with 4,160 pounds collected in Fairhaven alone. The Fairhaven donations went to the Shepherd’s Food Pantry in Acushnet. Every year, on the second Saturday in May, residents leave nonperishable food items near their mailboxes. Letter carriers and volunteers pick up the food for distribution to local pantries. For more information on the NALC food drive, visit https://www.nalc.org/community-service/food-drive.
(Click here for a letter from the pantry director: https://fairhavenneighborhoodnews.com/from-our-readers-thank-you-from-pantry-director/)
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- Volunteers at the Shepherd’s Pantry take a minute to pose for the local free sheet after unloading the truck of 4,160 pounds of food collected in Fairhaven by the United States Post Office Letter Carriers during the 27th annual National Association of Letter Carriers Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive on 5/11/19. Photo by Glenn C. Silva.
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- Volunteers use a makeshift ramp to slide the boxes of food from the truck outside into the basement of the Long Plain Methodist Church where the Shepherd’s Food Pantry is located after the 27th annual Stamp Out Hunger food drive by the National Assoication of Letter Carriers on 5/11/19. Photo by Glenn C. Silva.
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- The truck fills up with 4,160 pounds of food collected in Fairhaven by the United States Post Office Letter Carriers during the 27th annual National Association of Letter Carriers Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive on 5/11/19. Photo by Glenn C. Silva.
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- Volunteers help unload food collected by the United States Post Office Letter Carriers during the 27th annual National Association of Letter Carriers Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive on 5/11/19 at the Fairhaven Annex of the USPS. It is the largest one-day food drive in the nation. This batch was collected from Fairhaven and went to the Shepherd’s Pantry in Acushnet. Photo by Glenn C. Silva.
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