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May we encourage you to participate generously in tomorrow’s special statewide effort to replenish the Utah Food Bank! Frankly, the situation is a bit desperate. The pantry is practically bare.
The annual “Help Your Neighbor Day” food drive a few weeks ago was a virtual bust. In fact, the drive brought in only about 8 percent of its normal collection at the 23 participating pantries statewide. Fortunately, generous donors have stepped forward to supplement what was collected in November. However, the food bank is still short of its 1.5 million pound goal by a whopping million pounds.
So, they’ll try it again this weekend. Paper sacks will be delivered with tomorrow’s editions of the Deseret Morning News and the Salt Lake Tribune. And local arrangements are being made to pick up and deliver the goods to the various pantries. The mechanisms are in place to solve the predicament. All that’s needed now is for people to fill a bag with non-perishable food and see that it gets to a designated drop-off point.
No one in our blessed state should have to go hungry. With the help of those willing to share – and that’s most of us – KSL believes the pantries can again be filled for a season and ready to meet the ongoing need.
