Food coalition
making a comeback
SUN PHOTO BY CHEYENNE EMRICH
North Port Food Coalition volunteer Joe Wilcek pushes a cart of canned food boxes from Patriot Storage in North Port recently. The food was delivered to the North Port Salvation Army to help restock empty shelves.
SUN PHOTO BY CHEYENNE EMRICH
Volunteer Lyse Hines unloads boxes of mostly popcorn sent to The Salvation Army from All Faiths Food Bank Wednesday. The Salvation Army has been helped by the North Port Food Coalition to get much-needed food to help North Port's neediest.
NORTH PORT — The pasta, rice, soup and sauce are gone.
Stockpiled cases of food collected in mid-May from the U.S. Postal Canned Food Drive have been leaving the shelves of the storage units and now are in the hands of North Port’s neediest.
