West Texas Food Bank Collects Food During Election Season
By: Shelby Levins
Updated: November 5, 2012
MIDLAND -- The West Texas Food Bank is capitalizing on election excitement to collect canned food.
Three West Texas radio stations came together to collected canned goods for the West Texas Food Bank at Best Buy locations in Midland and Odessa on Monday.
Everyone who donated a can of food was registered to win a flat screen TV, courtesy of Best Buy.
The vote against hunger food drive started at 6 AM Monday, and it ran until 6 PM Monday.
"It's been great," Libby Campbell of the West Texas Food Bank told Big 2 on Monday Morning. "The store doesn't even open until 10 AM [Monday] morning and already we had 2 and a half barrels full, plus turkeys and some frozen deer meat. So it's going really well."
The West Texas Food Bank covers 19 West Texas counties. The food bank serves approximately 180,000 individuals each year.
Officials with the West Texas Food Bank say that they see the most need around the holidays and during the winter months.
Three West Texas radio stations came together to collected canned goods for the West Texas Food Bank at Best Buy locations in Midland and Odessa on Monday.
Everyone who donated a can of food was registered to win a flat screen TV, courtesy of Best Buy.
The vote against hunger food drive started at 6 AM Monday, and it ran until 6 PM Monday.
"It's been great," Libby Campbell of the West Texas Food Bank told Big 2 on Monday Morning. "The store doesn't even open until 10 AM [Monday] morning and already we had 2 and a half barrels full, plus turkeys and some frozen deer meat. So it's going really well."
The West Texas Food Bank covers 19 West Texas counties. The food bank serves approximately 180,000 individuals each year.
Officials with the West Texas Food Bank say that they see the most need around the holidays and during the winter months.
