Food Drive for WPC

For the past 4 years the local grocery store has held a food drive that begins November first and continues into January. It started with one store that at that time was named Gorman's and was recently purchased by the Ridley's chain who continued the tradition. This tradition was started by a cashier Sandra Coombs in Gorman's Market is now used in the Ridley's chain in 4 states. What they do is take groceries and canned goods and place them in paper bags that are decorated like a gift and the words Buy me for $5 on the bag. They are located by the check out stands to grab on your way to check out and just pay $5 for the bag of groceries. The bag is them placed in a bin before you leave the store. All the bags purchased go to the local food banks in that area. It has become a tradition with me and my grand kids to go to the store and each child picks out the bag they want to buy and we all go and pay our own $5 per bag. They then get to place the bag in the bin knowing where the food will go to and that someone will have food to eat because they did this. Sometimes we go back more than once. I try to buy one at least once a week or more. There were times in my past where I received help with food and it feels good to help someone else out like someone helped me.

Here is a link to an article the Ely Daily Times ran recently on the project:

http://www.elynews.com/articles/2009/01/07/lifestyle/life01.txt