food drive

Donating to a local food pantry this weekend will be easier than mailing a letter. People across the nation are being asked to donate non-perishable food items as part of the United States Postal Service's "Stamp Out Hunger" food drive...

Our 23rd Annual Cans Across the Park food drive was a giant success!  Dozens of community members braved the cold wind and came out to support our annual food drive, dropping off canned goods and non-perishables by the trunk-load.

Our 23rd Annual Cans Across the Park Food Drive returns to Buttonwood Park on Saturday, November 14th. Like the 22 years before it, we'll be collecting non-perishable food items and lining them up from one length of the park to the other.

WBSM and the United Way of Greater New Bedford will be teaming up to help local families struggling with hunger as part of the Stuff the Truck Event being held Saturday morning at the Stop & Shop in Fairhaven.

It's back!  For the 22nd year in a row we'll be collecting non-perishable food items at Buttonwood Park as part of our annual Cans Across the Park Food Drive.

Get your plastic bags and non-perishables ready for the 22nd Annual Letter Carrier Food Drive. This Saturday, letter carriers across the nation will be accepting food donations that will be donated to local pantries. Letter carrier Richard Drolet says over the last several years, Americans have donated over 74 million pounds of food on the second Saturday of May every year...

The annual Stamp Out Hunger food drive by the National Association of Letter Carriers has fallen on the second Saturday of May for the past 22 years. The letter carriers team up with other postal unions, Postal Service management and other volunteers to fight hunger locally.

There has been some confusion about "Cans Across the Park." For years it was the Saturday before Thanksgiving, but with Thanksgiving coming so late this year, we decided to hold the event on Saturday, Nov 16. That's not the earliest we've had it...

It has been an annual tradition. Each year, leading up to and on the Saturday before Thanksgiving, we ask our listeners to make a contribution to our efforts for Cans Across The Park.  We have an amazing community that has always helped us reach our goal of making it across the park, even sometimes doubling back.

WBSM is teaming up with the Hunger Commission of the United Way to "Stuff the Truck" tomorrow.