CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA (CVILLE RIGHT NOW) – With the Blue Ridge Area Food Bank serving the largest numbers in its history, they’re celebrating the fact the nation’s largest one-day food drive is happening Saturday.
Saturday is Stamp Out Hunger where the community leaves unperishable food items at their mailboxes for letter carriers to pick up as they deliver the mail to customers.
“Thanks to the generosity of our community, but also thanks to the incredible support that letter carriers provide, they take on so much extra work that day to take everyone’s food from the mailbox that they’ve donated and bring it back to the post office, and really ensure that the food reaches us here at the food bank and ultimately the people that we serve,” BRAFB Food Drive Manager Jennifer Rafter told Cville Right Now…