16th Annual Letter Carriers Food Drive A Success . . .
Thank You!

The 16th Annual Letter Carriers Food Drive -- held on May 10th -- was a tremendous community effort and a huge success! The National Association of Letter Carriers, United Way of Merrimack County, and the Capital Regional Food Program collaborated on this project that resulted in over 7 tons of food being collected, sorted, and distributed to 18 agencies in the greater Concord area.

We want to thank everyone in the community who donated food, the city and rural carriers who collected food donations, the nearly 100 volunteers who sorted and boxed food throughout the day, and New Hampshire Distributors for providing the convenient and safe work space. In addition, we thank the following businesses for their generous contributions: Horn Packaging Corp.; Town and Country Reprographics; Bridge & Bryon Printers; Shaws, Hannaford, and Market Basket supermarkets; Coca-Cola Bottling of the Lakes Region; Sal’s Just Pizza; D’Angelo’s–S. Main St.; Papa Gino’s; Dominos, N. Main St.; Dunkin Donuts-Heights; Constantly Pizza; In a Pinch; Panera Bread; and Subway Sandwich-Epsom.

Thanks to the community’s generosity, the following local food pantries received food donations: Friendly Soup Kitchen, Community Action Program-Belknap Merrimack Counties, Friends of Forgotten Children, West Congregational Church, City of Concord Human Services, Town of Boscawen Human Services, Boscawen Congregational Church, Pittsfield Food Pantry, Chichester Food Pantry, First Congregational Church, Centerpoint Church-Phileo Food Pantry, Salvation Army, McKenna House, St. Peter’s Church-St. Vincent DePaul, St. John’s Church-St. Vincent DePaul, St. Paul’s Church, Immaculate Food Pantry, and Merrimack Valley Daycare.

The Letter Carriers Food Drive is always held the second Saturday in May, so please mark your calendars now for May 9, 2009 and plan to join us!

National Association of Letter Carriers
United Way of Merrimack County
Capital Region Food Progr