Local food pantries benefit from National 4-H Day of Service

[May 12, 2018] 

Local food pantries including Community Action, Hope Grows Community Center, Holy Family Food Pantry and Logan County Food Pantry each received a portion of over 1600 items which were collected at the Logan County 4-H Food Drive held at Kroger in Lincoln on National 4-H Day of Service April 28th.

Seventeen adult 4-H volunteers, 4-H ambassadors, and 4-H members assisted on the day of the drive at Kroger in Lincoln with the collection. In addition, five local 4-H clubs collected food during their April club meetings to boost the drive including Beason Ag, Hartem Clovers, Middletown 4-H’ers, The 4 Corner Clovers and The Pioneers.

Ed Tibbets, of Hope Grows Community Center, states “All the wonderful food you collected will certainly go a long way and help many people in our neighborhood!” Rick Releford, of the Logan County Food Pantry, also indicated the many items donated will help assist the 1500 families served by the Logan County Food Pantry each month.

Ellie Klokkenga and Evan Cross of the Hartem Clovers 4-H Club stand at the ready to speak with shoppers about donating food products to the local food pantries as part of the National 4-H Day of Giving.

Partners for the 4-H food drive included Monsanto Production of Illiopolis who donated use of a trailer for the collection of items and Kroger of Lincoln who hosted the food drive at their store.

National 4-H Day of Service is an annual event taking place the last Saturday of April. For further information about 4-H contact the Logan County 4-H Office at 732-8289.

[Patty Huffer
Extension Program Coordinator
University of Illinois Extension]