On February 14th, the Rotary club and Redners Fresh Food Market hosted a 'Love Your Neighbor' food collection to benefit the Salvation Army. Rotarians took two hour shifts at the entrance handing out a one page list of needed items for incoming shoppers. Shoppers who wanted to help were invited to take a list and add items on the list to their regular shopping. At the exit they could deposit donated food items into waiting shopping carts.
Donations were wildly successful, we distributed about 150 item lists and collected 13 or 14 shopping carts full of donated food. A few people donated cash to the sum of $285 which was used to purchase more food.
All in all, it was a good day for the Salvation Army and the hungry.
