I am pleased to tell you your United States Postal mail carriers of Juneau collected almost 4,000 pounds of food from the Stamp Out Hunger food drive held on May 14. This is the 23rd year that the National Association of Letter Carriers, in cooperation with the National Rural Carriers Association and the United States Post Office, has conducted the drive.
We were thrilled that the weather cooperated with us this year. We want to thank the people of Juneau that gave what they could to help feed the local people who need the most.
We knew collecting the food from the mail boxes and the postal service clerks delivering to Helping Hands and the Southeast Alaska Food Bank would help fill their empty shelves. We would like to thank the postal service clerks for taking the time to receive the food at the counters. We also would like to thank postmaster Susan Johnson who let the drive happen in Juneau.
We would like to thank the mayor of Juneau for the proclamation of Stamp Out Hunger Day.
We also would like to thank Capital Copy for donating the printed fliers, United Way of Southeast Alaska for getting the word out, Jeff Brown for a radio interview and Taku 105 FM and Sharon at KINY Radio for airing our food drive.
We would like to thank Rainbow Foods, Foodland IGA, Superbear IGA, Fred Meyers and Safeway for allowing us to place the postal hampers in their stores.
We want to thank the elders of the Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints for coming and staying all afternoon for the weighing and boxing up of the food as it came in to the post office.
We need to thank Mark Piotrowski for his 10 years with the Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive. He made sure the advertising was going to be on, put the hampers in all the stores and then at the end he took them all out again.
I would like to thank the volunteers who stayed there all afternoon to assist in the drive: Kari Doran, Dwane Kaplor and Karen Fortwengler.
Betty Kaplor, director of Helping Hands
