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Summer Harvest Food Drive This Week

Summer Harvest Food Drive This Week
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By West Kentucky Star Staff
May. 25, 2017 | PADUCAH, KY
By West Kentucky Star Staff May. 25, 2017 | 04:33 PM | PADUCAH, KY
A local business has kicked off its fifth annual week-long food drive.

HollandStivers hosts "Summer Harvest" each year to help keep Paducah Cooperative Ministry's food pantry stocked. They reach out to their clients and other friends in the business community for help.

"We ask them to request from their employees that they bring in canned goods. Then on 'Harvest Day,' which will be this Friday June 2, in past years they've brought donations to our office or PCM," according to Wendy Cooper of HollandStivers. 

She said this year they are offering even more convenience to those who participate. 

Royal Oaks Chevrolet will help by parking pickup trucks in front of Paducah's three Kroger locations Friday from 11 am until 7 pm, so individuals can donate as they shop, and HollandStivers is also offering to pick up the food from businesses.

Cooper said, "From 11-2, we will be going out to those businesses and picking up donations of canned goods, dry foods, whatever is needed by PCM at that time."  

Cooper said the annual event was birthed out of employee prayer meetings held at the office every Friday, where partner Ron Stivers expressed a desire to help food pantries that are often depleted during summer months. Because children aren't eating meals at school, some families' grocery bills often double or triple. Cooper and PCM Executive Director Heidi Suhrheinrich have tracked the trend together over the last few years.
 
Cooper said, "This year alone, in January PCM helped 540 households. February was 375, March was 389, and April was 430. And I know last year, when we go back over those numbers, she's like at 500 households every month of the summer." 

PCM policy allows families to use their food pantry only five times per calendar year.



HollandStivers specializes in employee benefits, insurance and investments for individuals and businesses. They are located at 2660 Olivet Church Road, Suite 1. For more information, call 270-554-5535 or visit www.hollandstivers.com .
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