Scott Bush

As you may know, I volunteer with Food Lifeline whenever I can. For the past four years I’ve helped with their National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC) food drive event; the last three of which I’ve been a team leader. It’s a great event: letter carriers (the correct term for “mailman” or “mail lady”) drop off plastic grociery bags in your mailbox early in the week. Then on Saturday they pick them up again filled with donated non-perishable food and take them to their postal station. That’s where Food Lifeline’s volunteers come in. We transfer the food into huge cardboard boxes called “totes,” which are then loaded onto a waiting semi truck for shipment back to the main facility for processing and distribution to local food banks.

This year wasn’t as busy as past years, but it was still a very good turn out. We had 34 (or 36) totes full of food at the North City postal station where I was (the previous years I was team leader at Bitter Lake and University stations). We had a good number of dedicated volunteers, so we made short work of transferring the food when the postal vehicles arrived. All in all, my only complaint is the nasty sunburn across my forehead I didn’t know I was getting. Overcast days can be dangerous, so wear your sunscreen kids!