Yesterday was a great day.
We saw more food being brought in than most years before for the annual Linn Benton Food Share Spring Food Drive. After 16 years of organizing, this year was by far the smoothest running and most generous results as far as food and money donations go. I was tickled to see the quantities of food just keep coming and coming by the truckload and trunkload. Besides the Girl Scouts from the Benton Area, we had great participation from the leadership classes at both Crescent Valley HS and Corvallis HS as well as Santiam Christian. First United Methodist group were heroic too, in that they had a huge turnout after just getting back from a big mission trip just a couple days before. And many of the Realtors at Keller Williams did a phenomenal job of getting bags out and knocking on every door to bring loads after loads of food in. Several people expressed disappointment at not having been asked to help, which is new, and overall we collected far more monetary donations than had been received in past years, as well.
What a great spirit of humanity responding to their neighbors' obvious difficulties in these hard economic times. It really makes you proud to be part of the community. I am more excited about next year's drive than ever before and would love to hear from you if you'd like to be part of this movement to better so many peoples' lives in time of need.
Call me at 766-0272 to participate.
Thanks everyone!!!
Sue Long