City participating in holiday food drive

posted on: 12/15/2017

The City of Dover is participating in a holiday food drive and is now accepting food item donations at City Hall, 288 Central Ave.

The food drive supports End 68 Hours of Hunger, a nonprofit effort to confront the approximately 68 hours of hunger that some school children experience between the free lunch they receive at school on Friday afternoon and the free breakfast they receive at school on Monday morning. The program, established in New Hampshire in 2011, puts nourishing food in the hands of school children to carry them through the weekend.

Food donations being sought include peanut butter (18-ounce plastic container), jelly (20-ounce squeezable containers), mayonnaise (12-ounce squeezable containers), canned pasta such as Beefaroni, Ravioli and Spaghetti-O's, canned spaghetti and meatballs, canned soup (121 to20-ounce sizes), macaroni and cheese (boxes not cups), canned fruit (three to four serving sizes), granola and nutrition bars, cereal (boxes or bags of five to eight servings), tuna or chicken (10-ounce or smaller cans), instant oatmeal, and Swiss Miss cocoa mix.

Please do not drop off items in glass containers or expired items.