Carrabelle Food Pantry needs food, funds

            The Carrabelle Food Pantry is in need of donations of food and funds to be used especially for the holiday season.

            Every week throughout the year, your neighbors volunteer to collect, bag and distribute food to over 135 needy families in the Carrabelle area.  At Thanksgiving, Christmas and Easter we try to give special holiday food to those families.  We are fortunate this year to received funding for Thanksgiving turkeys but we still need dressing, cranberry sauce and vegetables.

            For $1.50 we can provide a box of stuffing mix, $5.50 will get a case of canned vegetables from the Second Harvest in Tallahassee, and $10 will buy 10 canned meat meals.  No donation is too small.  We realize this is a rough year for all of us economically.  Even if you could buy one extra item and put it in the Food Pantry donation box at the Carrabelle IGA the next time you buy groceries, it would be a big help.

            Anyone wishing to make a cash donation should make the check out to the "Carrabelle Food Pantry," which is now operating as an independent non-profit serving the Carrabelle and Lanark Village end of Franklin County. Donations of food or funds can be left at the United Methodist Church, the Carrabelle Waterfront Partnership Office at 701 Marine Street, or the Carrabelle Chamber of Commerce.

            For more information, contact the office of Carrabelle CARES at 697-2141.