09-09-16 Firefighter Food Drive Next Week

There will be several events associated with this food drive. The kick-off event is Monday, September 12th, at the Food City at 7804 E. Brainerd Road. Firefighters will be there from 6:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m., accepting donations of non-perishable food as well as monetary contributions. For the rest of the week through September 18th, area residents can drop off their donations at any of the department's 19 fire stations located throughout the city.

New this year is the addition of "Wash Away Hunger" events at three public schools. Each school will be conducting its own food drive. On a specific date next week, students will draw chalk art and messages about hunger. Then Chattanooga firefighters will arrive and provide water hoses for the students to "wash away hunger." Once that is done, firefighters and food bank personnel will take away the food the students have collected. Here are details on when and where those events will take place:

Sept. 14th – Chattanooga School for the Arts and Sciences (CSAS)
Location: 865 E. 3rd Street

Time: 10:00 a.m.

Sept. 15th – E. Brainerd Elementary School
7660 Goodwin Road
Time: 2:00 p.m.

Sept. 16th – Normal Park Elementary School
1009 Mississippi Avenue
Time: 9:15 for Upper School and 9:30 a.m. for Lower School

*Attached are flyers the schools produced to help promote the event.

Here is a list of the common items the Food Bank can use: canned fruit/vegetables, cornmeal, flour, grits, pasta, rice, canned meats, dry beans, fruit/vegetable juice, oats, peanut butter, soups. For more information about the Chattanooga Area Food Bank, visit them online at http://www.chattfoodbank.org/.