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Food, financial donations will provide more than 500,000 meals
Published: December 18, 2020, 5:14pm
Share: Volunteers collect donations during the Drive & Drop food drive Dec. 4 at Chuck s Produce. (Nathan Howard/For The Columbian)
It was anybody’s guess as to how much the 2020 version of Walk & Knock would bring in as a Drive & Drop.
The annual local food drive that benefits the Clark County Food Bank did better than anyone’s guess.
Some 130,000 pounds of food and a record $110,000 came in.
“I’m so proud of our community stepping up when times are down,” Walk & Knock President Tom Knappenberger said in a statement. “While we didn’t collect as much food as last year, we received more than 10 times our usual financial contributions. And we did it all safely.”
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Share: Volunteer Ray Thorne, who has volunteered at the food bank for close to two decades, helps gather food items out of a large box for others to sort on Tuesday at the Clark County Food Bank. The donations were from Saturday s Drive & Drop food drive, which in previous years was known as Walk & Knock. (Joshua Hart/The Columbian)
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Cheers: To Drive & Drop. The annual food drive typically known as Walk & Knock took a different look this year, but still was deemed a success. Instead of having volunteers knock on doors throughout the county, organizers asked for donations to be delivered to drop boxes or drop-off sites a necessity in the age of coronavirus.
Although donations, which go to Clark County Food Bank, declined from previous years, more than 100,000 pounds of food were received. “Even if it was half as much, it’s pleasing to help. I feel good about it,” said Tom Knappenberger, president of Walk & Knock. Of course, donations of food or money always are welcome, and the need is particularly acute this year. Information can be found at walkandknock.org/how-to-donate.
Free Hot Soup Vancouver offers food, comfort as pandemic hits homeless hard
Published: December 10, 2020, 7:21pm
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6 Photos A line of people in need stretches out near Share House as Free Hot Soup Vancouver gives away meals in downtown Vancouver. Free Hot Soup Vancouver volunteers say the pandemic has negatively impacted homelessness in Clark County. (Photos by Amanda Cowan/The Columbian) Photo Gallery
A line of people snaked up to a table near 13th Street and Lincoln Avenue in Vancouver on Wednesday night.
A small group of masked volunteers passed out boxes of food that included stew, chili or pasta, fruit and dessert. The volunteer group Free Hot Soup Vancouver is nearing its sixth year of feeding the hungry in Clark County.
Letter: Thank you for generosity By Beth Lee, FISH West Vancouver, Battle Ground
Published: December 11, 2020, 6:00am
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And now for some good news.
I write from FISH West Vancouver Food Pantry, where we’ve seen increased numbers of people needing food. However, we’ve also seen an amazing outpouring of community support, and for this thank you all.
First off, a heartfelt thanks to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, which donated two semi-trucks of food over the past six months. We thank them for the cases of peanut butter, pasta, tomato sauce and more that helped fill our food boxes. And when we called them with an emergency need for cold weather gear, they showed up within hours to provide sleeping bags, blankets and tents. Thank you!