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Calendar of Events Current/Upcoming Events: Ongoing Events:
Past Event Highlights: 2009 Crop Walk - October 18, 2009. 25% of funds raised support local food banks. Details forthcoming for this great community event. Yard Sale and Food Drive - Sat. June 6, 2009 at Stor-All Self Storage, 757 Science Park Road. Over 300 pounds of food were donated for the Food Bank! Trash to Treasures - Sat, May 30, 2009. This annual event brought in over 4,000 pounds of food! Our thanks to the Bryce Jordan Center and the United Way for coordinating this event, and to the students who donated to it! Home Grown - Sat, May 30. Over 1,000 vegetable plants were given to an estimated 70 Food Bank Clients! Many thanks to the Master Gardeners for their generous donation of time and energy for this well received project. It worked so well, we will continue the program next year! Postal Carrier Food Drive - Saturday May 9, 2009, brought in a record amount of food, over 35,000 pounds, which will be distributed to all the Centre County food pantries. Bruce Springsteen Concert Food Drive- May 8, 2009 .Our thanks goes to everyone who made donations of food, cash, or grocery gift cards at the Bruce Springsteen concert on May 8 th. We received over $4000 in cash and gift cards and over 200 pounds of food. These donations will be shared with the other Centre County food pantries. Click here to view press release. Scouting for Food - November 8, 2008. Scouts worked hard again to bring in at least 20,000 pounds of non-perishable food for use throughout Centre County. 2008 CROP WALK- October 19th. This year's Crop Walk was even more successful than last year, with over 50 more walkers. Over $6,500 was raised!
Trash to Treasure on May 31, 2008 resulted in over 10,000 pounds of food donated. Thanks to everyone involved!! Postal Carriers Food Drive - Stamp out Hunger: Saturday, May 10, 2008 posted over 29,000 pounds of food. You really kept the postal carriers busy!!
Volunteers needed! We can really use your volunteer help! Please contact Ernest Boyd at 234-2310 to volunteer! (See our Volunteer! page for more information about ways you can help out.) |
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