Stamp Out Hunger coming Saturday
JOEL MARTIN | Hagadone News Network | UPDATED 1 year, 7 months AGO
Letter Carrier Melanie Spaeth brings in several bags of canned goods from her route during the 2022 Stamp Out Hunger event. This year’s food drive is Saturday.
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Joel Martin has been with the Columbia Basin Herald for more than 25 years in a variety of roles and is the most-tenured employee in the building. Martin is a married father of eight and enjoys spending time with his children and his wife, Christina. He is passionate about the paper’s mission of informing the people of the Columbia Basin because he knows it is important to record the history of the communities the publication serves. | May 9, 2024 2:00 AM
MOSES LAKE — Mail carriers will be picking up more than the mail this Saturday, as part of the U.S. Postal Service Letter Carriers’ Stamp Out Hunger food drive.
Residents are invited to fill a bag — or bags — with non-perishable food items and leave them next to their mailbox for the letter carrier to pick up, said Customer Service Supervisor Lindee Long.
There’s no limit on the amount of food that can be left, Long said.
“We have volunteers, mostly carriers that have already retired,” she said. “They come (back) every year and they're familiar with the routes, so they'll go and drive the routes and pick up from the carriers so their trucks don't get full.”
The food that’s collected goes to the Moses Lake Food Bank. The need is especially great at this time of year, said food bank Director Peny Archer.
“We very much appreciate (it) because people do not think about (people being hungry) in April, May, June, July,” Archer said. “They always think, ‘Oh, that's in November or December.’ So we're thankful for them doing this, very thankful.
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