Our town wide food drive will be conducted from March 16 through March 30. We have collection sites throughout the town and we need teams of volunteers to collect from specific sites. The team will be responsible for collecting the canned good from their assigned sites, bring the collection to the food pantry, weigh and record the collection. Sorting and stocking will be done by other teams. It will be easiest, but not required, for the same volunteers to do the collection each day. With a team of 4 members, the list of sites can be split among the team.
The collection sites for the South team are: Avelinos, Blacksburg Eye Associates, Hello Bagel, Our Daily Bread, Skyline National Bank, Wikiteria, Annie Kays, Blacksburg Bagels, Blacksburg Library, South Main Kroger
The procedure will be:
- Get collection boxes from the food pantry
- Go to the collection sites and empty the donations into the box retrieved from the food pantry
- Bring the donations back to the food pantry
- Weigh the donations and, ideally, track by collection site location
- Record the donations
The collection time is flexible for the team. We only ask that that the items be at the food pantry by 3:00 pm for the sorting team to process. The time for the shift is an estimate and should be significantly less if we have 4 team members splitting the list of collection sites.
