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Comment on this article | Joseph Fire, Mt. Joseph Family Foods stage drive for Food Bank
By Elane Dickenson
Wallowa County Chieftain
Joseph residents and visitors will try to "Fill the Fire Truck" with food when Mt. Joseph Family Foods and the Joseph Fire Department team up for a big food drive.
The event will take place from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday, Nov. 9, when the fire department's emergency van will be parked at the store, and community members are asked to fill it for the Wallowa County Food Bank.
Contributors can bring donations or buy one of Family Foods prepared donation bags made up in the store in two sizes, $5 and $10. Mt. Joseph Family Foods is not making a profit on the bags.
Last year, Joseph residents gave more than $1,440 worth of food donations through a food drive sponsored by the grocery store alone.
This year, Family Foods employee Michael Moore, a three-year volunteer Joseph firefighter, had the idea of enlisting the fire department to boost the effort.
"If I have my way, we'll fill the truck more than once," Moore said.
He said Joseph Elementary School also has joined the cause, and each grade is collecting food in the classroom.
The Joseph food drive is one of several community efforts to help fill food bank shelves, including a school talent show last week that collected six boxes of food for the food pantry in Wallowa and a food drive by OK Theatre with the movie "Ice Age" on Nov. 19.
"Right now we are very low" on food supplies, said Carolyn Pfeaster, manager of the food bank at the Community Connection center in Enterprise. "The demand has been so great, it's a challenge to keep our shelves stocked."
November typically is the month of highest demand for the food bank and she said she appreciates the food drives and continued community support.
At the Nov. 9 event in Joseph, firefighters also will be on hand with a fire engine to help collect the food. They also will answer questions about rural fire contracts, new boundaries and additional coverage areas.
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