The Food Fight Against Hunger, a month-long food drive spearheaded by eight local organizations, collected a whopping 66,300 pounds of food for the Help Warehouse food bank, organizers reported last week.
The drive, which closed Oct. 31, “was a tremendous effort on the part of all the teams, and great timing, since our lean months are from August to November,” Alan Rose, spokesman for Lower Columbia CAP, said in a prepared statement.
Cowlitz PUD, Fibre Federal Credit Union, International Longshore Warehouse Union (ILWU), Kapstone, Lower Columbia College, NORPAC, Steelscape and Weyerhaeuser Co. and their 3,207 collective employees participated in the campaign.
