The Results are In!

11,125: The pounds of food we collected in Fairfield Saturday for the Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive!

Yes, I would say the food drive this weekend was an enormous success. We had several enthusiastic volunteers helping out, and the time went by pretty fast because we were unloading trucks so often.

Today's blog post will be told through the use of pictures.

We got to the post office a little before 2:00, so not a lot of mail trucks had come back yet. We used that time to lay out about a dozen enormous boxes provided by Shared Harvest. We still had some down time when we finished that, so we went for a group shot inside the box. On the left you'll see my sister Jen, my mom Debbie, Kaitlyn's husband Taylor, Kaitlyn, and Adam, a volunteer from Lakota East High School. And that's me in the middle.

We actually had a lot more volunteers than this. For some reason, my brother-in-law Dan isn't in this picture. My dad took the picture. The five volunteers from Fairfield High School showed up at 3:00, and my boyfriend Kyle came over at 4:00.

Whenever a mail truck would come back from it's delivery, a few of us would meet it outside with one of those carts and plastic storage bins to unload the food. Sometimes a truck came in with two bags of food, but most of the time the back was completely filled with non-perishables.

Meet my dad, Chris! He's preparing a dolly to go out and load some more food!

Check out all of those volunteers stamping out hunger!

Once a box was completely full, we would use the dolly to wheel the skid into the enormous truck to go back to Shared Harvest.

Meet my boyfriend, Kyle!

Meet my brother-in-law, Dan! These guys were really helpful in getting all that food into the truck.

At the end of the day, Fairfield had collected a total of 11,125 pounds of food!
And the grand total of Butler County came out to be (drum roll, please)....

77,182 pounds of food!

That's 2,730 more pounds of food than last year! Hooray! Thanks again to everyone who helped out on Saturday by unloading and reloading boxes, donating food, or getting the word out! We made a huge difference this weekend!