In light of the coming holiday events, Johnson Brothers Ford is teaming up with Food for Families to raise donations, food, and hunger awareness for the Central Texas area.
This is an annual project run by the Boy Scouts of America, the Texas Army National Guard, H.E.B., and KWTX-TV. They join together with food banks across Central Texas to collect non-perishable food items that they can hand out during and beyond the holiday season.
H.E.B. joined as a partner in 1991 after the success of the first year, which raised more than 84,000 pounds of food. After complicated federal legislations, the Texas Army National Guardsmen became the fourth partner in 1998. Through this program, counties that before had no food pantries have long since been able to establish a center to help feed impoverished families. This nine county, one-day of goodwill always takes place the Friday before Thanksgiving and is always televised live every thirty minutes from 6am to 8pm.
For the past 23 years now, volunteers from the above mentioned establishments, along with other community organizations, collect food from these nine counties. This is the biggest one-day food drive in Texas. All of the food that’s collected from the county serves the residents of that county. For the past seven years, Texans have donated more than a million pounds of food and donations each year. Last year alone, the donations of food totaled more than 1,453,000 pounds.
If you feel you are able to help out with this drive, please visit any of the participating sites. There are over a dozen different places throughout Central Texas where you can drop off your non-perishable donations. Non-perishable items include canned meats such as tuna, chicken, and stew; canned vegetables; cereals; baby food; and rice, flour, sugar, pasta, peanut butter, dry beans, and corn meal, among others. Feel free to give anything else that will not go bad as well, but these are the most needed items.
A few of the participating sites are a range of H.E.B. food stores, many local food banks, and even a few churches and local government buildings. This holiday, remember to help those who are in need. Load up what you can in your Ford car or truck and generously give to those who are less fortunate.
