Saturday, November 9, 2024

Food drive to kick off for local food bank

Some of the regular Wilmington Food Bank volunteers packing disaster relief boxes. (Courtesy Food Bank of Central and Eastern North Carolina.)

NEW HANOVER COUNTY – New Hanover County 4-H’s 2nd annual 4-H food drive, Caring Hearts Helping Hands, will take place Mar. 1-31 to benefit the Food Bank of Central and Eastern North Carolina. The community-at-large is encouraged to donate non-perishable food items at one of six donation sites. 

In 2021, 4-H the food drive collected over 1,600 pounds of non-perishable items and more than $1,000 in donations to benefit the citizens of central and eastern N.C. The food bank serves Columbus, Brunswick, New Hanover and Pender counties. 

It needs donations now more than ever due to the effects of the pandemic. From March until June 2020, about four out of 10 people visited food banks who had never received food assistance before Covid. 

The Farmers Supply, New Hanover County Public Library branches — main, northeast, Pine Valley, and Pleasure Island — and New Hanover County Cooperative Extension have partnered with 4-H for this year’s donation drop-offs. For every $1 made as a financial contribution, the food bank can provide five meals.

A “drive thru” drop-off will take place Mar. 12, 10 a.m. -1 p.m.,  for the public to donate at the New Hanover County Extension and Arboretum (6206 Oleander Dr.).

On Mar. 26, a drop-off table will be available at the Wilmington Farmers Market at Tidal Creek, 8 a.m. -1 p.m.

More information on 4-H’s “Caring Hearts Helping Hands” community service project can be found at, visit the 4-H Food Drive website


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Shea Carver
Shea Carver
Shea Carver is the editor in chief at Port City Daily. A UNCW alumna, Shea worked in the print media business in Wilmington for 22 years before joining the PCD team in October 2020. She specializes in arts coverage — music, film, literature, theatre — the dining scene, and can often be tapped on where to go, what to do and who to see in Wilmington. When she isn’t hanging with her pup, Shadow Wolf, tending the garden or spinning vinyl, she’s attending concerts and live theater.

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