Scott Bush

As you may recall from an earlier post, I volunteer with Food Lifeline, a terrific organization in Shoreline. One of their big events each year is the National Association of Letter Carrier’s Food Drive. You get a plastic bag in your mail a few days before the second Saturday in May, and you fill it with canned- or non-perishable food and put it out by your mailbox. Then your letter carrier picks it up and brings it to their station.

Once again, I was team leader at the North City Station in Shoreline. Hank, the other team leader, was there again as well; 2008 marked our third year at the station together. We were lucky enough to have a number of returning volunteers, too. Speaking of volunteers, let’s see how well I do remember their names: Steve, Taft, Ben, Jeff, Anthony, and Cody on first shift; Scott, Wanda, Mark, Jody, Christina, Carol, Lynn, Thomas, Leslie, Tanner, Devin, Ryan, Sonja and a few others (including Crystal!). Special thanks to Janet, the station supervisor for her help as well.

Together we unloaded tons of food: literally. We filled one semi and most of another with totes (huge cardboard boxes), each weighing between 900 and 1000 pounds. In 2007 this station brough in 35,500 pounds of food; this year it probably approached the same amount but we won’t know for a few days. That’s excellent given the tough economy right now: thanks to everyone for their generous donation of food, money, and effort on Saturday.