Food Drives Help Local Families In Need

The bitter cold of winter always creates more challenges for those families trying to spread their sparse income around to cover too many needs. There are ways, however, that many of us can help.

Food is always a need that sometimes gets shortchanged, so Sir Home Improvement is sponsoring two food drives in January. The first is going on now through Sunday, Jan. 16, at Paw Paw Family Fare.

Our efforts to bring food to the needy continues next weekend at Vicksburg Family Fare, Jan. 23-30.
We have already donated more than 800 items to 12 food pantry baskets this year. We’ll be donating the food from the next two drives to Eleanor’s Food Pantry in Paw Paw. Donations should be of non-perishable food items.

If you wish to make a cash donation instead, go to the Eleanor’s Pantry website, eleanorspantry.org. Eleanor’s Pantry was formed by the combined efforts of 11 local churches, and is funded primarily by those churches, community service organizations and private donors. All staff are volunteers.

Yes, this is a pretty cold weekend to go out and make a special trip to donate, but you probably have to go to the store sometime. Besides, it’s colder on an empty stomach for our neighbors in need. Please help if you can.

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