By Daily Press staff
Letter carriers took on an extra burden in their daily route to collect food for the Westside Food Bank. On Saturday, May 13, letter carriers from 14 Westside postal stations, including those in Santa Monica, Pacific Palisades, Malibu, Culver City, Venice, Inglewood, Lawndale, and El Segundo, collected more than 100,000 pounds of food on their mail routes on behalf of Westside Food Bank. Thousands of local residents took part in “Stamp out Hunger Saturday”, a nation-wide effort sponsored by the National Association of Letter Carriers and the United States Postal Service, by placing canned and packaged food by their mail boxes.
Westside Food Bank provides nearly four million pounds of food annually to 65 local social service agencies. Said Bruce Rankin, the food bank’s executive director,“The local need for food assistance in our community has never been higher, so we greatly appreciate everyone who gave food. We are especially grateful to all the letter carriers who took the trouble to carry all the food back to their stations.” What’s old is new
Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on June 17, 2006. Read the original PDF.