food drive to support the NC food bank

RodneyWright · **Posted:** Tue Nov 23, 2010 10:49 am

I wanted to throw this out for consideration, so please respond back if you think this is a good or bad idea. In light of the recent news articles on dwindling food donations, I would like to recommend that we consider a food drive as part of the upcoming Christmas party. This link has the information of needed items per the eastern part of the NC Food Bank...

http://content.foodbankcenc.org/getinvo ... dDrive.asp

We can get a little more organized over the next few days, but right now I want to gauge interest more than anything else.

KouroshNeshat · **Posted:** Tue Nov 23, 2010 12:47 pm

on top of that, we can donate our leftovers to a nearby shelter or wherever they can accept it. (thats if there are any leftovers)

JohnByers · **Posted:** Tue Nov 23, 2010 5:19 pm

I would be down for this.

Charlie Guthrie · **Joined:** Thu Aug 28, 2003 8:14 pm **Posts:** 832

Sounds like a good gift of the season idea to me, too.
The website asks for the donations to be delivered if possible. If needed I could drive the truck to the party and haul off the loot. The only down side would be to decide which facility gets the donation...I live in Raleigh, so that is probably closest for me to deliver.
Charlie G

RodneyWright · **Posted:** Wed Dec 01, 2010 2:41 pm

ok, I wanted to get some feedback on this effort and it looks like this is getting a luke warm reception. I need to let the food bank know in the next day or so we are doing this.

I'd like to say we're in to support the foodbank considering donations are low this year. If you can help support this, please bring a few items to the party. Needed items are listed in the link in the first post. Between Charlie and myself, we'll figure out someway to get this over to the foodbank.

RodneyWright · **Posted:** Thu Dec 02, 2010 2:22 pm

considering the lack of response to this post, we will not be doing a food drive at the party.

KendtEklund · **Joined:** Tue Mar 27, 2007 7:29 pm **Posts:** 1204

RodneyWright wrote:

considering the lack of response to this post, we will not be doing a food drive at the party.

LAME! - guess I'm guilty of not responding too, though :oops:

How hard is it to bring some cans of food?

Any chance to send out emails?

Judi Westerfield · **Posted:** Thu Dec 02, 2010 3:30 pm

Sorry I didn't post either. I thought it was a go. I am planning on bringing some cans and have a cardboard box I'm bringing too to make it easier for transporting.

Les Davis · **Joined:** Fri Aug 29, 2003 2:04 pm **Posts:** 2059

I was planning on bringing some to, I guess I should have responded as well.

RodneyWright · **Posted:** Thu Dec 02, 2010 6:07 pm

OK, well consider this back on then!!! I'll bring some boxes as well to help w/ this. Thanks in advance to everyone that is willing to help w/ the food drive!

RodneyWright · **Posted:** Tue Dec 07, 2010 9:39 am

I dropped off the food and cash yesterday at the NC food bank. On behalf of the THSCC, we donated $31 bucks in cash and over 80lbs of food. Thank you all for supporting the NC food bank. I'm sure someone will enjoy our efforts.

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