BRATTLEBORO — On the Saturday and Sunday of Martin Luther King Day weekend, Jan. 19 and 20, “Stuff the Bus,” a food drive for area food shelves will take place at Hannaford on Putney Road.
The food will go to area food shelves, including the Brattleboro Area Drop-in Center, Loaves and Fishes, Brigid's Kitchen, Agape Church, Putney Community Center, and the Guilford Food Shelf.
Organizing the effort is Green Mountain RSVP and Volunteer Center, a county-wide agency that matches volunteers ages 55 and older with nonprofits.
From 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. each day, volunteers will invite shoppers to add food items from a suggested list to their carts while they are shopping, and bring the items to a parked bus donated by The Current bus line.
Volunteers from area food pantries will come and take the goods at the end of each day.
The event, for a second successive year, takes place with the supermarket's cooperation.
Last year, with the generosity of shoppers, Green Mountain RSVP volunteers did indeed succeed in stuffing a bus.
“The event is low-key and courteous,” said Green Mountain RSVP Program Manager Peter Seares.
For more information, contact Seares or Marie Cohen at 802-254-7515.