Thank you does not come close to expressing how grateful the Niles Area Food Pantries are for the support received this past weekend, for the postal service’s annual Stamp Out Hunger food drive.

Your generous response allowed us to distribute more than 19,600 pounds of much needed food and dry goods to our pantry shelves. Your thoughtfulness will help to feed hundreds of families who are less fortunate. 

For the immediate future, our pantry shelves are again stocked.

This effort would not have been successful without the efforts of the local postal workers and our teams of dedicated volunteers. We would like to thank the companies which donated food for our volunteers at the Post Office: Subway Restaurant, KFC Restaurant, Front St. Pizzeria, Pizza Transit and Milano’s Pizza.

A special thank-you to Four Flags Area Credit Union, Greater Niles Community Federal Credit Union, Summit Church and First Church of God-Niles for the volunteers they supplied in this effort to support our community.

From the postal carriers, the volunteers who helped the carriers unload, weigh and then load the donations for transport to the pantries, the drivers who delivered it to each pantry site, and to the angels who sorted it all and placed it upon the shelves: “thank you,” just does seem enough to convey our heartfelt appreciation. 

We truly couldn’t have made this happen without all of you. 

Need knows no season, and we stand ready to step up to assist with emergency services and grocery assistance. Please continue to support us through your love offerings, prayers and ongoing donations of current (not out dated), nonperishable shelf stable foods.

There is no greater testimony to one’s love of Christ than to serve others. Thank you all.

Timothy Douglas

Niles Salvation Army