2001 Food Drive Report
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Volunteers at one of Clarkston's Food Banks waiting for the day to begin.

We Did It Again, Another Record Collection!
- Brooks Bennett, WSALC Board -

I want to offer both thanks and congratulations to the letter carriers of Washington State on the wonderful results of our Food Drive on May 12th. Although the drive may seem like a long time ago when you read this, please remember that in many places the food you collected in May is still helping hungry families in August. More than two and a quarter million pounds of non-perishable food is astounding! It's an increase of more than 25% from last year, and something that each of us can be proud of. Ask your local food bank, they'll tell you how much difference we make. Great feeling, isn't it?


I apologize for not having this report in the last newsletter; in fact the Editor kindly agreed to hold the paper for two weeks after the deadline. At the end of that time however, we just didn't have reports from several places where I knew for sure that they'd collected food. So we decided to hold on and have a more complete report for you at this time. I'd like to encourage everyone for next year; please call your results in to our Washington State hotline as soon as you're done counting. That number will be published in this paper well before the Food Drive on May 11, 2002. We'll also arrange to have an e-mail address to send in your results if that works better for you.
BRANCH
City 
POUNDS
     
79 Seattle 777,933
130 Tacoma 250,642
351 Olympia 67,485
442 Spokane 170,591
450 North Sound 80,500
736 Walla Walla 12,005
791 Snohomish County 325,293
852 Yakima 47,800
853 Aberdeen 7,940
1104 Vancouver 140,000
1164 Colfax 1,300
1266 Lewis County 15,200
1296 Pullman 4,500
1302 Hoquiam 5,831
1350 Wenatchee 20,507
1414 Kitsap Peninsula 51,900
1484 Puyallup 52,524
1515 Port Townsend 6,300
1527 Anacortes 7,870
1906 Port Angeles 13,453
1947 Clarkston 13,230
2030 Sedro Woolley 7,840
2038 Kent 44,073
2103 Kelso 13,800
2214 Longview 40,900
2503 Enumclaw 7,500
2914 Dayton 1,450
2935 Montesano 2,450
3008 Camas 2,100
3877 Richland 10,000
4213 Ephrata 3,196
5194 Oak Harbor 18,000
6008 Quincy 4,600
Rural Carriers & Small Post Offices 101,645
   
   
WASHINGTON STATE 2,330,358

Scout Troop helping
Spokane Br. 442
I'd also like to thank the other postal employees and others who help us do this good work. Clerks, mail handlers, supervisory employees and especially rural carriers in many places make a significant contribution to the total. In fact, as you'll notice in the list below, almost 5% of the food reported comes from places where there are no city carriers. Please remember to thank all the people who participated in your area, families, Auxiliary members, retirees and all the other volunteers. It's all of us working together that makes the largest one-day food drive in America so successful. Time to start on Food Drive 2002!

Clarkston WA. Carriers on
Food Drive
Thank You !