ABC11 Together Food Drive

Tomorrow is the Food Bank of CENC’s big holiday food drive day. It used to be called the Heart of Carolina Food Drive. During this holiday season it is a good time to do a little something to help someone who needs a good meal. Our food bank is the major provider of food to over 800 partner agencies who feed people. When you donate to the Food Bank you are also helping places like Urban Ministries, Meals on Wheels, Durham Rescue Mission, Salvation Army, Catholic Charities and many more because they depend on the Food Bank to get food.
Drive through day is a chance to bring food you may have in your pantry that you might not need and donate it. The Kroger on Hillsbourough Street in Durham will be collecting food all day. In years past I have appeared on one of the ABC news cut in spots talking about the need in our community, but tomorrow is Carter’s birthday so I will be tied up.
An even better way to help and one you can do from the comfort of your own home is to just log on to the Food Bank website and donate funds.www.foodbankcenc.org The Food Bank is able to take a dollar donated and turn it into $10 worth of food through our network of farmers, growers, packers and food companies. So please don’t go buy new food and give it to us, unless you an extreme couponer and can also buy food for ten cents on the dollar.
I know that anyone who has read this blog more than once has heard me go on and on about the Food Bank, but in terms of the impact that the organization has on the community there is no equal. Last year we provided over 65 million pounds of food to our community. Sadly that is not close to what the total need is.  
My goal is that the Food Bank can be put out of business because the is not one person in our 34 counties so is hungry. I am not sure I will live long enough to see that goal reached, so until that time we need places like the Food Bank to ensure that no one goes hungry.