Chatham Donates a Ton of Food—Literally

Chathamites showed their generosity on Saturday when they laid out bags of food for the in Morris Plains.

The donations were part of the . Postal workers collected the bags and stored them in the annex of the .

From there, Kiwanians, Key Clubbers and volunteers from the Morris County Youth Shelter transported the bags to the Interfaith Food Pantry.

It took four days for volunteers to deliver all the food. When they were done, they had taken 2,882 pounds of food, almost 1.5 tons, from Chatham residents to the pantry. According to Kiwanian Ron Whalin, "this is about 300 pounds more than last year."

Donations from the Chathams accounted for nine percent of all donations collected from Morris County as part of Stamp Out Hunger. County-wide donations were about 32,000 pounds of food.

Stamp Out Hunger is the nation’s largest single-day food collection drive, according to the U.S. Postal Service. In 2011, carriers picked up 70 million pounds of food.