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Food drive looks to top 500,000 lbs.

Published 03/03/08

A way to help reduce hunger among poverty-stricken Marylanders is as close as your mailbox.

Colleen Dugan - The Capital Melissa Hill, who has been a volunteer for 17 years, brought her son, J.J., 7, and his grandfather Ron Wheeler, all of Crownsville.
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On Friday, officials from the Maryland Food Bank and corporate and civic-minded supporters filed into the Food Bank's cavernous, 87,000-square-foot warehouse at Halethorpe Farms Road, near Hollins Ferry Road, in an industrial section of Baltimore County.

 

Inside, nearly 100,000 pounds of canned and bottled food items were stacked in mountainous piles on plastic-wrapped pallets. Parked in the middle was a U.S. Postal Service delivery vehicle, stuffed with bags of food.

Deborah Flateman, CEO of Maryland Food Bank kicked off...

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