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Stamping Out Hunger

Letter carriers ask public to take part in annual food drive; food will be picked up Saturday


Staff photo by Evan Lewis Texarkana, Ark., Mayor Horace Shipp and U.S. postal carrier Kim Wyatt laugh while Shipp puts on a T-shirt before proclaiming Wednesday the start of the National Association of Letter Carriers Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive. Reminder cards will be in area residents’ mail today and food will be picked up Saturday.
The National Association of Letter Carriers Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive kicked off Wednesday at Texarkana’s Downtown Post Office.

Letter carriers will deliver about 300,000 food drive mailing inserts to area residents today and will pick up food on Saturday as they deliver the mail. Rural letter carriers are also participating in the food drive.

“We strongly urge all of our citizens to join efforts to end hunger in the city ... and make a contribution,” Texarkana, Ark. Mayor Horace Shipp said during the kickoff ceremony.

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