November 10, 2005
Annual drive benefits U District Food Bank
The “Hungry for the Holidays” Food Drive to benefit the University District Food Bank is in full swing on campus. This is the 22nd year that the UW community has supported the food bank by collecting donations at various locations on campus.
In 2004, the food bank provided 1.3 million pounds of supplemental groceries to 39,615 households, 8 percent more than in 2003. About 2 percent of their clients are infants and another 20 percent are children. The bank’s service area is the six zip codes constituting Northeast Seattle.
More than 95 percent of the food the bank distributes is donated.
Donations to the food bank should be non-perishable — canned meats, fruits and vegetables, powdered and evaporated milk, dry cereals, peanut butter, etc.
The campus food drive will continue until Dec. 5. Here is a partial list of barrel locations in the more public areas:
Allen North wing lobby
Art, Main Hallway (1st floor)
Bagley Lobby
Gerberding, first floor
Guthrie, Foyer
Health Sciences, Rotunda
HUB, Next to info desk (1st floor)
Human Subjects, main office
Mary Gates, The Commons, north end opposite latte stand
Music, Main Office (room 102)
Northlake, Facilities Services
Padelford, 1st floor, near elevators
Paul Allen Center, Electrical Engineering main office (1st floor)
Physics Astronomy, Near ‘H Bar’ Café
Roosevelt Commons, 4311 11th NE, Mail Room (1st floor)
Savery, North entrance
Savery, South entrance
Schmitz, Near 1st floor elevators
Smith, 2nd, 3rd & 4th Floor
Speech and Hearing Sciences Clinic, Waiting Room
Staff Services, 3900 Brooklyn,
Payroll Office
