Corpus Christi Army Depot employees arriving to work Nov. 1 were greeted by large unfamiliar crates outside their work centers.
Each 3-foot by 3-foot by 3.75-foot cardboard crate is deceptively durable to handle an assignment that barrels could no longer fill. What's going in there? Food -- and lots of it!
The 29th annual Share Your Christmas Food Drive, benefiting the Food Bank of Corpus Christi, kicked off on November 1.
Schools, businesses and families throughout the community team up with Kiii-TV, a Texas grocery store chain and the food bank for one month of giving to reduce hunger in South Texas.
Depot event coordinator Julius Wilson said there are 15 crates spread throughout the 2.3 million square feet of depot industrial space where donors can deliver their nonperishable and non-breakable food items.
Employees can find these crates on the CCAD Portal: just navigate to the main page and scroll down to "Share Your Christmas Food Drive."
Crates will be picked up first thing on Friday, Dec. 2, at 7 a.m. so donors need to get their goods in the box before then.
Once all crates are collected, they are weighed by the food bank. CCAD's heaviest haul of donated food items occurred with the Share Your Christmas Food Drive 2010 with a collected weight of 6,013 pounds.
The goods are then delivered to the Food Bank of Corpus Christi at the Kiii-TV news station, airing live on Channel 3.
Beatriz Hanson, executive director with the Food Bank of Corpus Christi, said that the food bank's donations have been low this year but they hope the drive will help increase donations.
Since 1982, the Food Bank of Corpus Christi has been fighting hunger in the Coastal Bend by providing food and personal care products to various charity and service agencies. The Food Bank of Corpus Christi feeds 78,900 people annually and serves 11 counties in South Texas.
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