Largest one-day national food drive helps food pantries

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Members of Letter Carriers Branch 219 based in Aurora unload one of the many trucks filled with food at the Aurora Post Office Saturday. Carter Crane/The Voice
Volunteers at the Naperville Post Office fill a cart from a truck at the Saturday Letter Carriers Food Drive. Branch 1151 members worked in the annual event.  Jason Crane/The Voice

The largest one-day national food drive requires a large network to help fill depleted supplies in many food pantries. The annual event uses the mail trucks to pick up donations, including letter carriers on their routes. Saturday both National Association of Letter Carriers Branch 219, based in Aurora and NALC Branch 1151, based in Naperville, participated. Volunteers unload trucks on the respective post office docks prior to the food distribution by trucks to food pantries. 

Carter Crane and Jason Crane/The Voice

Branch 219 members, including Aurora Third Ward alderman Ted Mesiacos, front row, second from left, kneeling, pose in the back of a semitrailer.
Carter Crane/The Voice

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