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This Saturday is Stamp Out Hunger Day

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This Saturday, your letter carrier, i.e. mailperson, will pick up canned goods and non-perishable food items for the annual “Stamp Out Hunger” drive. The National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC) has been doing this for 18 years now. This year, Campbell Soup Company is teaming up with them in what is the largest single-day food drive in the country. The letter carriers do this every May to help stock of the food pantries, which often run short of food during the summer. Despite hard times, the letter carriers collected 73.4 million pounds of food last year. The U.S. Department of … Continue reading →

David Arquette is ‘Feeding America’

Actor David Arquette is known for his roles in films like Scream and Eight Legged Freaks . He’s been a professional wrestling champion (yes, really), started a clothing line with musician Ben Harper (Propr), and married a famous “Friend” (Courtney Cox). Now, he is filling yet another role – as that of the chairman of Feeding America’s Entertainment Council. Feeding America is a charity fighting against domestic hunger. Formerly known as America’s Second Harvest, Feeding America has a nationwide network of over 200 food banks that help provide food for more than 37 million Americans each year. Among those are … Continue reading →