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!["Just some canned soup and some corn" was left on the shelves of the Emergency Care Help Organization in Brandon, at 507 North Parsons Avenue. The food pantry and clothes closet that serves the Greater Brandon area was again struggling to meet the emergency needs of a growing populace torn asunder, at least temporarily, by the ongoing economic troubles of a town transitioning itself from boom to bust.
The annual "Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive," held nationwide the second Saturday in May, aims to stock local food pantries, such as ECHO, where people in emergency situations can get help with their basic food, clothing, toiletry, and household furnishing needs up to four times in a lifetime. Each time an individual or family is in need the allowable alltoment of goods is food for seven days and up to 12 outfits per family member.
"We hope the food collected today [at the 2010 Stamp Out Hunger food drive] will keep us full until [the] Feed The Bay drive in the fall," Efaw said.
The annual food drive is run by the National Letter Carriers Association in conjunction with the United States Postal Service. Letter carriers during their normal mail deliveries pick up the non-perishable food items left in bags and placed at mailboxes. Those collections arrive at the post offices and from there letter carriers and other community volunteers transport the items to places such as ECHO.
At ECHO, volunteers such as Josh Kolacsky, above, help to unload, sort, re-box, and count the donations. Kolacsky, who graduated from Durant High in 2009, is a student at Hillsborough Community College. He first learned about ECHO in his leadership honors class at Durant.
ECHO receives collections from the Brandon, Bloomingdale, Dover, Riverview, and Valrico post offices.
Related Coverage:The 2009 Stamp Out Hunger postal food drive at ECHO
The 2008 Stamp Out Hunger postal food drive at ECHO
The 2009 Feed The Bay food drive benefits ECHO, others](http://www.mypapernow.com/Other/National-Stamp-Out-Hunger/i-fVG99P6/1/Ti/DSC_2893-Ti.jpg "\"Just some canned soup and some corn\" was left on the shelves of the Emergency Care Help Organization in Brandon, at 507 North Parsons Avenue. The food pantry and clothes closet that serves the Greater Brandon area was again struggling to meet the emergency needs of a growing populace torn asunder, at least temporarily, by the ongoing economic troubles of a town transitioning itself from boom to bust.
The annual \"Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive,\" held nationwide the second Saturday in May, aims to stock local food pantries, such as ECHO, where people in emergency situations can get help with their basic food, clothing, toiletry, and household furnishing needs up to four times in a lifetime. Each time an individual or family is in need the allowable alltoment of goods is food for seven days and up to 12 outfits per family member.
\"We hope the food collected today [at the 2010 Stamp Out Hunger food drive] will keep us full until [the] Feed The Bay drive in the fall,\" Efaw said.
The annual food drive is run by the National Letter Carriers Association in conjunction with the United States Postal Service. Letter carriers during their normal mail deliveries pick up the non-perishable food items left in bags and placed at mailboxes. Those collections arrive at the post offices and from there letter carriers and other community volunteers transport the items to places such as ECHO.
At ECHO, volunteers such as Josh Kolacsky, above, help to unload, sort, re-box, and count the donations. Kolacsky, who graduated from Durant High in 2009, is a student at Hillsborough Community College. He first learned about ECHO in his leadership honors class at Durant.
ECHO receives collections from the Brandon, Bloomingdale, Dover, Riverview, and Valrico post offices.
Related Coverage:The 2009 Stamp Out Hunger postal food drive at ECHO
The 2008 Stamp Out Hunger postal food drive at ECHO
The 2009 Feed The Bay food drive benefits ECHO, others")
![Fresh from his honeymoon, letter carrier Terry Franklin collected and delivered thousands of pounds of food to the Emergency Care Help Organization (ECHO) in Brandon.
On his way to the cruise ship for his honeyman, Franklin was in contact with ECHO organizers to ensure that the tubs, plastic bags, and fliers were ready to go for the 2010 Stamp Out Hunger food drive.
"I told my carriers, 'treat it like it's your own food and make sure you have plastic bags and [informational] postcards" for your routes, said Franklin, who in 2009 took over from retired letter carrier James "Jim" Brophy the organizational duties of the annual drive.
"Treat it like your own food drive," Franklin told his carriers, "because you never know if someone on your route is going to be that person in need [who benefits from the drive]."](http://www.mypapernow.com/Other/National-Stamp-Out-Hunger/i-KqMrjHh/1/Ti/DSC_2869-Ti.jpg "Fresh from his honeymoon, letter carrier Terry Franklin collected and delivered thousands of pounds of food to the Emergency Care Help Organization (ECHO) in Brandon.
On his way to the cruise ship for his honeyman, Franklin was in contact with ECHO organizers to ensure that the tubs, plastic bags, and fliers were ready to go for the 2010 Stamp Out Hunger food drive.
\"I told my carriers, 'treat it like it's your own food and make sure you have plastic bags and [informational] postcards\" for your routes, said Franklin, who in 2009 took over from retired letter carrier James \"Jim\" Brophy the organizational duties of the annual drive.
\"Treat it like your own food drive,\" Franklin told his carriers, \"because you never know if someone on your route is going to be that person in need [who benefits from the drive].\"")
"Just some canned soup and some corn" was left on the shelves of the Emergency Care Help Organization in Brandon, at 507 North Parsons Avenue. The food pantry and clothes closet that serves the Greater Brandon area was again struggling to meet the emergency needs of a growing populace torn asunder, at least temporarily, by the ongoing economic troubles of a town transitioning itself from boom to bust.
The annual "Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive," held nationwide the second Saturday in May, aims to stock local food pantries, such as ECHO, where people in emergency situations can get help with their basic food, clothing, toiletry, and household furnishing needs up to four times in a lifetime. Each time an individual or family is in need the allowable alltoment of goods is food for seven days and up to 12 outfits per family member.
"We hope the food collected today [at the 2010 Stamp Out Hunger food drive] will keep us full until [the] Feed The Bay drive in the fall," Efaw said.
The annual food drive is run by the National Letter Carriers Association in conjunction with the United States Postal Service. Letter carriers during their normal mail deliveries pick up the non-perishable food items left in bags and placed at mailboxes. Those collections arrive at the post offices and from there letter carriers and other community volunteers transport the items to places such as ECHO.
At ECHO, volunteers such as Josh Kolacsky, above, help to unload, sort, re-box, and count the donations. Kolacsky, who graduated from Durant High in 2009, is a student at Hillsborough Community College. He first learned about ECHO in his leadership honors class at Durant.
ECHO receives collections from the Brandon, Bloomingdale, Dover, Riverview, and Valrico post offices.
Related Coverage:
The annual "Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive," held nationwide the second Saturday in May, aims to stock local food pantries, such as ECHO, where people in emergency situations can get help with their basic food, clothing, toiletry, and household furnishing needs up to four times in a lifetime. Each time an individual or family is in need the allowable alltoment of goods is food for seven days and up to 12 outfits per family member.
"We hope the food collected today [at the 2010 Stamp Out Hunger food drive] will keep us full until [the] Feed The Bay drive in the fall," Efaw said.
The annual food drive is run by the National Letter Carriers Association in conjunction with the United States Postal Service. Letter carriers during their normal mail deliveries pick up the non-perishable food items left in bags and placed at mailboxes. Those collections arrive at the post offices and from there letter carriers and other community volunteers transport the items to places such as ECHO.
At ECHO, volunteers such as Josh Kolacsky, above, help to unload, sort, re-box, and count the donations. Kolacsky, who graduated from Durant High in 2009, is a student at Hillsborough Community College. He first learned about ECHO in his leadership honors class at Durant.
ECHO receives collections from the Brandon, Bloomingdale, Dover, Riverview, and Valrico post offices.
Related Coverage:
- The 2009 Stamp Out Hunger postal food drive at ECHO
- The 2008 Stamp Out Hunger postal food drive at ECHO
- The 2009 Feed The Bay food drive benefits ECHO, others
Emergency Care Help Organization in Brandon, at 507 North Parsons Avenue. The food pantry and clothes closet that serves the Greater Brandon area was again struggling to meet the emergency needs of a growing populace torn asunder, at least temporarily, by the ongoing economic troubles of a town transitioning itself from boom to bust.
The annual "Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive," held nationwide the second Saturday in May, aims to stock local food pantries, such as ECHO, where people in emergency situations can get help with their basic food, clothing, toiletry, and household furnishing needs up to four times in a lifetime. Each time an individual or family is in need the allowable alltoment of goods is food for seven days and up to 12 outfits per family member.
"We hope the food collected today [at the 2010 Stamp Out Hunger food drive] will keep us full until [the] Feed The Bay drive in the fall," Efaw said.
The annual food drive is run by the National Letter Carriers Association in conjunction with the United States Postal Service. Letter carriers during their normal mail deliveries pick up the non-perishable food items left in bags and placed at mailboxes. Those collections arrive at the post offices and from there letter carriers and other community volunteers transport the items to places such as ECHO.
At ECHO, volunteers such as Josh Kolacsky, above, help to unload, sort, re-box, and count the donations. Kolacsky, who graduated from Durant High in 2009, is a student at Hillsborough Community College. He first learned about ECHO in his leadership honors class at Durant.
ECHO receives collections from the Brandon, Bloomingdale, Dover, Riverview, and Valrico post offices.
Related Coverage:
- The 2009 Stamp Out Hunger postal food drive at ECHO
- The 2008 Stamp Out Hunger postal food drive at ECHO
- The 2009 Feed The Bay food drive benefits ECHO, others" href="javascript:openLB(860776266,'',XLarge,'',1024,681);">
!["Just some canned soup and some corn" was left on the shelves of the Emergency Care Help Organization in Brandon, at 507 North Parsons Avenue. The food pantry and clothes closet that serves the Greater Brandon area was again struggling to meet the emergency needs of a growing populace torn asunder, at least temporarily, by the ongoing economic troubles of a town transitioning itself from boom to bust.
The annual "Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive," held nationwide the second Saturday in May, aims to stock local food pantries, such as ECHO, where people in emergency situations can get help with their basic food, clothing, toiletry, and household furnishing needs up to four times in a lifetime. Each time an individual or family is in need the allowable alltoment of goods is food for seven days and up to 12 outfits per family member.
"We hope the food collected today [at the 2010 Stamp Out Hunger food drive] will keep us full until [the] Feed The Bay drive in the fall," Efaw said.
The annual food drive is run by the National Letter Carriers Association in conjunction with the United States Postal Service. Letter carriers during their normal mail deliveries pick up the non-perishable food items left in bags and placed at mailboxes. Those collections arrive at the post offices and from there letter carriers and other community volunteers transport the items to places such as ECHO.
At ECHO, volunteers such as Josh Kolacsky, above, help to unload, sort, re-box, and count the donations. Kolacsky, who graduated from Durant High in 2009, is a student at Hillsborough Community College. He first learned about ECHO in his leadership honors class at Durant.
ECHO receives collections from the Brandon, Bloomingdale, Dover, Riverview, and Valrico post offices.
Related Coverage:The 2009 Stamp Out Hunger postal food drive at ECHO
The 2008 Stamp Out Hunger postal food drive at ECHO
The 2009 Feed The Bay food drive benefits ECHO, others](http://www.mypapernow.com/Other/National-Stamp-Out-Hunger/i-fVG99P6/1/L/DSC_2893-L.jpg "\"Just some canned soup and some corn\" was left on the shelves of the Emergency Care Help Organization in Brandon, at 507 North Parsons Avenue. The food pantry and clothes closet that serves the Greater Brandon area was again struggling to meet the emergency needs of a growing populace torn asunder, at least temporarily, by the ongoing economic troubles of a town transitioning itself from boom to bust.
The annual \"Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive,\" held nationwide the second Saturday in May, aims to stock local food pantries, such as ECHO, where people in emergency situations can get help with their basic food, clothing, toiletry, and household furnishing needs up to four times in a lifetime. Each time an individual or family is in need the allowable alltoment of goods is food for seven days and up to 12 outfits per family member.
\"We hope the food collected today [at the 2010 Stamp Out Hunger food drive] will keep us full until [the] Feed The Bay drive in the fall,\" Efaw said.
The annual food drive is run by the National Letter Carriers Association in conjunction with the United States Postal Service. Letter carriers during their normal mail deliveries pick up the non-perishable food items left in bags and placed at mailboxes. Those collections arrive at the post offices and from there letter carriers and other community volunteers transport the items to places such as ECHO.
At ECHO, volunteers such as Josh Kolacsky, above, help to unload, sort, re-box, and count the donations. Kolacsky, who graduated from Durant High in 2009, is a student at Hillsborough Community College. He first learned about ECHO in his leadership honors class at Durant.
ECHO receives collections from the Brandon, Bloomingdale, Dover, Riverview, and Valrico post offices.
Related Coverage:The 2009 Stamp Out Hunger postal food drive at ECHO
The 2008 Stamp Out Hunger postal food drive at ECHO
The 2009 Feed The Bay food drive benefits ECHO, others")
"Just some canned soup and some corn" was left on the shelves of the Emergency Care Help Organization in Brandon, at 507 North Parsons Avenue. The food pantry and clothes closet that serves the Greater Brandon area was again struggling to meet the emergency needs of a growing populace torn asunder, at least temporarily, by the ongoing economic troubles of a town transitioning itself from boom to bust.
The annual "Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive," held nationwide the second Saturday in May, aims to stock local food pantries, such as ECHO, where people in emergency situations can get help with their basic food, clothing, toiletry, and household furnishing needs up to four times in a lifetime. Each time an individual or family is in need the allowable alltoment of goods is food for seven days and up to 12 outfits per family member.
"We hope the food collected today [at the 2010 Stamp Out Hunger food drive] will keep us full until [the] Feed The Bay drive in the fall," Efaw said.
The annual food drive is run by the National Letter Carriers Association in conjunction with the United States Postal Service. Letter carriers during their normal mail deliveries pick up the non-perishable food items left in bags and placed at mailboxes. Those collections arrive at the post offices and from there letter carriers and other community volunteers transport the items to places such as ECHO.
At ECHO, volunteers such as Josh Kolacsky, above, help to unload, sort, re-box, and count the donations. Kolacsky, who graduated from Durant High in 2009, is a student at Hillsborough Community College. He first learned about ECHO in his leadership honors class at Durant.
ECHO receives collections from the Brandon, Bloomingdale, Dover, Riverview, and Valrico post offices.
Related Coverage:
The annual "Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive," held nationwide the second Saturday in May, aims to stock local food pantries, such as ECHO, where people in emergency situations can get help with their basic food, clothing, toiletry, and household furnishing needs up to four times in a lifetime. Each time an individual or family is in need the allowable alltoment of goods is food for seven days and up to 12 outfits per family member.
"We hope the food collected today [at the 2010 Stamp Out Hunger food drive] will keep us full until [the] Feed The Bay drive in the fall," Efaw said.
The annual food drive is run by the National Letter Carriers Association in conjunction with the United States Postal Service. Letter carriers during their normal mail deliveries pick up the non-perishable food items left in bags and placed at mailboxes. Those collections arrive at the post offices and from there letter carriers and other community volunteers transport the items to places such as ECHO.
At ECHO, volunteers such as Josh Kolacsky, above, help to unload, sort, re-box, and count the donations. Kolacsky, who graduated from Durant High in 2009, is a student at Hillsborough Community College. He first learned about ECHO in his leadership honors class at Durant.
ECHO receives collections from the Brandon, Bloomingdale, Dover, Riverview, and Valrico post offices.
Related Coverage:
- The 2009 Stamp Out Hunger postal food drive at ECHO
- The 2008 Stamp Out Hunger postal food drive at ECHO
- The 2009 Feed The Bay food drive benefits ECHO, others
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