Last week the Public Speaking Class at  Iowa Western Community College in Atlantic, conducted a food drive for the Atlantic Food Pantry. A drop-off box was located in the college atrium, and in the parking lot last Wednesday, for drive-up donations. Event organizer Leigh Ann Wolfe-Dawson reports  grocery cart was loaned to the class by the Atlantic Hy-Vee.

Donated to the Atlantic Food Pantry were: 9 boxes of cereal, 7 boxes of macaroni and cheese, 5 boxes of Hamburger Helper, 4 corn muffin mixes, 4 packages of pasta side dishes, 3 boxes of pasta, 3 jars of pasta
sauce, 3 boxes of Jello-O, 2 boxes of tuna, cake mix and frosting, oatmeal, crackers, and 100+ cans of peas, pork and beans, fruit cocktail, peaches, pears, chicken noodle soup, tuna, and many more types of canned food.

Additionally, generous community members put spare change and cash in a glass jar and we raised $123 for the Atlantic Food Pantry too. Wolfe-Dawson and the Public Speaking Class Thank you for giving so that they could help the people who are hungry in our community.