On Saturday, May 8, the post office sponsored Stamp Out Hunger Campaign. They collected food for the Bluffton Community Assistance Program that all of you on their routes donated. Let me tell you, the postal people must lift weights all year in preparation for transporting what all of you donate!
As a result, the Bluffton Community Assistance Program has been completely replenished through the efforts of the National Association of Letter Carriers, National Rural Letter Carriers, the U.S. Postal Service, the Bluffton Post Office, and the people served by this branch of the post office.
Besides the members of the post office, several community members donated their time to separate and shelve the food items: Duane Bollenbacher, Eileen Basinger, Evelyn Sutter, Rev. Bruce and Kathy Steinhard, Heidrun Awad, Judith Kingsley, Tyler Begg, Michael Marcum, Jack Marcum, Nicholas Marcum, Mary Colettea, and Connie Maroscher. I owe a special thank you to the ladies of the United Methodist Women, spearheaded by Lori Lewis, who took the time to come in to recognize the food pantry before the post office collection.
Without this food drive each year, the Bluffton Food Pantry would be unable to function at its current level of providing 30 families with 30 cans of food each month.
Thank you Bluffton Post Office and community members for supporting the needy in this community.
Respectfully,
Paula McKibben
Director
