Food Drive - Volunteers Needed!
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The 2017 Annual Food Drive will be November 4!
2016 Results
St. Johns CARES and its partners collected approximately $40,000.00 worth of food and cash donations to help the hungry in St. Johns County. With help of many volunteers, bags were dropped off to 10,000 homes in NW St. Johns County then picked up, counted and sorted. Liberty PInes Academy, Switzerland Point Middle School, and Julington Creek and Durbin Creek Elementary schools were great contributors in the food drive as well. A special thanks to Julington Golf Course for donating the use of their meeting room during collection weekend. Publix, as always, was a tremendous support. This year the food was donated to Christ’s Cupboard Food Pantry at Celebration Lutheran, St. Francis House, SEA Community in Armstrong and Shepherd's Haven in Hastings. Read more in our news article in the December 2016 issue of the St. Johns Sun. If you would like your neighborhood included in future food drives, or for more information on St. Johns CARES, our initiatives and events, visit www.StJohnsCares.org or “follow”us on Facebook. This truly goes to show that “Uniting the Community through helping others in need” does work! |
Volunteer for bag distribution and collection at our SignupGenius page. Thank you!
October 30 and November 4 St. Johns CARES will again collect non-perishable food for local food pantries in St. Johns County. Bag distribution day is Monday, October 20. The collection day is Saturday 11/4. The community will be asked to fill the bags with non-perishable food and to leave donations at their mailboxes by 10AM on 11/4. Our community has been so generous in donating food over the past years, but we also need volunteers to make this effort the huge success it has been in the past. See the December 2016 article about the Food Drive in The St. Johns Sun.
Adults and teens can volunteer. Bags are donated by Publix and will be placed by volunteers on neighborhood mailboxes in Julington Creek Plantation, Durbin Crossing, St. Johns Golf & Country Club and other neighborhoods along Racetrack Road & CR 210 W corridors the last week of October. The bags will be picked up the following weekend, November 4th. The food is sorted and the donations are picked up by the benefiting food pantries. This initiative is an impressive orchestration of food delivery, sorting and packing by volunteers including high school groups, civic organizations such as the St. Johns Rotary, Creekside and Bartram Trail High Schools athletic teams, Julington Creek Loggerhead Aquatics and many individuals! Food will be collected to benefit local charities St. Francis House, Christ's Cupboard (Celebration Lutheran Food Pantry) and the Hastings and Armstrong communities. 
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Thank you to our sponsors!
Body Control Gym
Julington Creek Golf Club
Pinch-A-Penny Pool Service
Publix Super Markets
Primrose Schools
PDQ Fruit Cove
The UPS Store
VyStar Credit Union
Body Control Gym
Julington Creek Golf Club
Pinch-A-Penny Pool Service
Publix Super Markets
Primrose Schools
PDQ Fruit Cove
The UPS Store
VyStar Credit Union
