Local letter carriers will conduct their annual food drive on Saturday, Dec. 13.
Postal customers are urged to place nonperishable foods, particularly canned goods, in bags and hang them from their mailbox. All the food collected by local carriers will stay in Sweet Home, where it will be distributed by Sweet Home Emergency Ministries (SHEM).
Tom Gates, of the Oregon State Association of National Association of Letter Carriers, said that carriers in the Eugene and…