Saturday wasn't much of a day to brag about. But chilling rains couldn't keep the 19th annual Stamp Out Hunger food drive from bringing in some impressive numbers.

In all, 5,450 pounds of food was collected and distributed to local food pantries.

Pictures by Marla Blair

On Saturday, volunteers transferred boxes of food items from the Lincoln post office dock into vehicles and delivered the donations to local food pantries.

Jami-lynn and Jessa Hill and their mother, Jodee, of Grand Avenue in Lincoln, waited for the letter carrier to arrive on Saturday to take their food donation for the Stamp Out Hunger event.

Cathy Jones weighed the bags and boxes of food items when they were brought to the post office on Saturday, using the large scale in the receiving area.

Jerry Davis rolled a large cart from the scale to the loading dock after food items were weighed. Each large orange cart held approximately 200 pounds of food.

Volunteer Danny Lessen managed the food donation cart at Lincoln IGA. Danny said the cart had been emptied once, and he was hoping it would fill up again.

Bill Overton and Jim Bell unload food items Saturday and carry them into the Lincoln/Logan Food Pantry. Several volunteers inside established an assembly line of activity that kept donated food moving to the pantry shelves.

Lincoln/Logan Food Pantry volunteers checked expiration dates and sorted food items into sections in order to ready the packages for the storage shelves.

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