The 2011 Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive conducted nation-wide by the NALC was another great success.

This drive is the Weymouth Food Pantry's single largest food drive. This year the Weymouth Letter carriers picked up more than 8,000 pounds of food from Weymouth residences during their normal delivery rounds on Saturday, May 14th. Although this year's collection was not as large as some prior year's it is still a significant contribution to keep our shelves stocked and enable us to continue to serve the hungry of Weymouth.

A team of Food Pantry volunteers brought the food from the Post Offices to the Food Pantry. This year, members on Immaculate Conception Parish's Confirmation class assisted in the arduous task of receiving all of this food in a very few hours, sorting it by type and storing it in our "banana boxes". The result is that more than 120 of these boxes were packed in a few short hours, a great act of community service for these youths.

In the coming weeks, food pantry volunteers will be checking the "use by" or "best by" dates on all of the donated food to assure it meets our guidelines, so that it can be distributed to our clients in the coming months.

Thanks to all Weymouth residents who donated food for this drive, and to the Letter Carriers from all four Weymouth Post Offices who picked up the donations. Sincere thanks to all those who worked so hard (and long) to make this drive such a success.

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