CommunityTuesday, November 10
The Rock the Pantries food drive collected seven tons of food and supplies for St. Johns County pantries
The Daily St. Augustine team
If you gave at Friday's drive, here's where it went. Community members donated seven tons of food and supplies at The St. Augustine Amphitheatre and Ponte Vedra Concert Hall, and on Saturday the donations went to local food pantries.
The drive's donations reached 17 pantries
- 7 tons
- of food and supplies donated
- 17
- local food pantries received donations
- 6,700
- families the donations are estimated to support
Source: Action News Jax
Demand is growing. Epic-Cure Executive Director Sunny Mulford said before the drive that more than 3,700 families who had never sought assistance from Epic-Cure have come through its doors this year.
“Our community rallied and showed up for those in need this year.”
- Donated: dry goods, beans, canned vegetables, cooking oils and diapers
- Last year's drive: about 31,000 pounds of food
- Run by: SJC Cultural Events, Inc., second year hosting holiday drives
The drive ran Friday and pantries got the donations Saturday
- Nov. 6Donors drop off food at the amphitheater and concert hall
- Nov. 7Donations are distributed to 17 local food pantries
- 2027The Rock the Pantries food drive will return
Sources: Action News Jax, The Florida Times-Union
Sources: Action News Jax, The Florida Times-Union