PB&J Drive

With the lack of the true Christmas Spirit I have been talking about, I want to bring you some more stories of people helping the community like the person that dropped the gold coin in the Salvation Army Kettle. There is a group of people from Lewiston, NY that have started a peanut butter and jelly drive five years ago. Their goal is to help hungry children by filling shelves of food pantries with food kids will eat and enjoy. A lot of food pantries have a lot of canned foods but its food that children will not like or eat. In five years of doing this drive, the collection of jars has grew from a few hundred to about 13,000 jars last year. They then take these jars, separate them, and take them to various pantries including the Salvation Army in Lockport, which feeds 200 families a month.  "It'll help a lot of children and a lot of people," said Robert Drinkwater, Salvation Army Director of Social Ministries. "And you don't really realize when you see people who get it how appreciative they are that it's there." This is a great group of people that continue to not only help men and women but their children too. I'm glad there is people out there that remembers to put Christ in CHRISTmas!!

If you want to donate, you can find a list of drop off locations on the Peanut Butter and Jelly Facebook Page. For more information you can call 510-7108, 735-7061 or 799-4013.