State College Area School District is looking to deliver a busload of food to the State College Food Bank, and the entire community can pitch in.
The district is holding a one-day ‘Stuff the Bus’ food drive from 8 a.m.-4 p.m. on Wednesday, May 20.
During that time, donors can leave nonperishable items, especially those on the food bank’s current needs list, at designated drop-off sites at Corl Street, Easterly Parkway, Ferguson Township, Gray’s Woods, Mount Nittany, Park Forest, Radio Park and Spring Creek elementary schools and Mount Nittany and Park Forest middle schools.
The next day, organizers will sort the items and take them to the food bank in a SCASD school bus.
According to a news release, Van Swauger, SCASD director of transportation, developed the idea.
‘When I was a child, my family depended on the local food bank to get us through a time of need,” Swauger said. “As I began to think of how to help our local food bank during this present time of need, I came up with the ‘Stuff the Bus’ event to help local families as a way of giving back.”
