[Yolobus Public Announcement] Yolobus Does Food Collection During Woodland Christmas Parade (Parade starts 10 a.m., Saturday, December 10th)

Terry Bassett Tbassett at yctd.org
Thu Dec 8 12:41:24 PST 2011


 

December 2, 2011
Erik Reitz

Associate Transportation Planner

Yolo County Transportation District

530-402-2826

ereitz at yctd.org

 

 

YOLOBUS and Food Bank Partner to Fight Hunger in Yolo County this
Holiday Season!

 

As unemployment in California remains around 12% many Yolo County
residents go hungry.  Help fight hunger by donating a non-perishable
food item at the Woodland Holiday Parade.

 

(Woodland, CA) Yolobus, Yolo County's transit provider, has teamed with
the Food Bank of Yolo County and Veolia Transportation to help fight
hunger this holiday season with the inaugural Stuff a Yolobus food
drive.  Yolobus will accept non-perishable food donations on December
10th during the Woodland Holiday Parade with the goal of collecting 1000
pounds of food.  Volunteers from both Yolo County Transportation
District and Veolia Transportation will be pushing carts that look like
mini-Yolobuses.  Donors should wave to the volunteer nearest them.  The
volunteer will pull the cart up to the donor and accept the
non-perishable food item.  The parade starts at 10 a.m. on Saturday and
runs along Main Street in Woodland.

According to the US Census Bureau, in 2010, 21 million people live in
working-poor families. This means nearly 9.6 percent of all American
families living below 100 percent of poverty have at least one family
member working.  What many people don't understand is that anyone can
experience hunger.  It is a silent epidemic that affects 49 million
Americans.

According to August 2011 Feeding America Meal Gap Survey nearly 30,000
Yolo County residents, including children, low-income families, seniors
on fixed incomes, those living with HIV or AIDS, the homeless and people
struggling to move from welfare to work, live with the threat of hunger.
Over 10,000 students in Yolo County schools are eligible for free or
reduced-price school breakfast programs.  Yolobus and the Food Bank of
Yolo County urge you to reach out to those less fortunate during this
holiday season.

The Food Bank of Yolo County was founded in 1970, incorporated in 1971,
and has grown from a backyard gleaning program, providing a few thousand
pounds of food a year, to an organization staffed by 10 full-time and
part-time employees and hundreds of volunteers. They now distribute
millions of pounds of food annually. For over 40 years they have worked
to make a difference in the lives of people all over Yolo County. The
Food Bank coordinates the solicitation, storage and distribution of food
from an established network of growers, manufacturers, distributors,
wholesalers and grocery stores, while continuing to cultivate new
sources of food. They establish and maintain collaborative relationships
with non-profit programs, private and public sector agencies, and
service organizations throughout Yolo County as well as by fostering
mutually beneficial arrangements with commercial retail and wholesale
food donors.

 

 

TERRY BASSETT, Executive Director

Yolo County Transportation District

350 Industrial Way

Woodland, CA  95776

 

(530) 402-2812

FAX:  (530) 666-5842

 

tbassett at yctd.org <mailto:tbassett at yctd.org> 

 

 

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