Kiwanis Club annual food drive

THE KIWANIS CLUB OF THE SAN RAMON VALLEY WILL BE COLLECTING ABOUT 10,000 LBS. OF FOOD FOR THOSE IN NEED IN OUR COMMUNITY.

We are teaming team up with NBC Bay Area and Safeway Grocery Stores for the club’s annual Fall Food and Turkey Drive to be held on Saturday, November 21st.

With help from some 30 volunteers from Key Clubs, family, friends and members of the National Charity League, the Kiwanis will be collecting approximately 850 bags of groceries.

We will be outside Safeway stores in Alamo, Blackhawk, San Ramon and Dougherty Valley from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday, 21st November, collecting $10 for each grocery bag provided by Safeway. These will be delivered to the Food Bank of Contra Costa and Solano counties located in Concord. Our goal is to help fill all local food banks so that no child or family will need to go hungry this holiday season.

Additionally, we will be contributing $3,500 directly to purchase even more groceries.

“Every year we collect about 10,000 lbs. of food during our one day food drive” says Nancy Bray, Chair of the Kiwanis 2015 Food Drive, ”Our contribution accounts for about 10 percent of all food distributed between Thanksgiving and New Years by the Food Bank of Contra Costa and Solano County.”

Karl Schroeder, president of Safeway’s Northern California Division adds ”We are proud to be partnering with our area food banks and these important volunteer organizations on this community-wide collection effort,”

Safeway contributes $175 million in food donations to food banks each year across the U.S. and partners with local organizations each holiday season by placing food collection barrels in stores.