Community Compassion and the Impact of the National Letter Carriers' Food Drive

Join us on a heartfelt journey through Hendersonville’s heart and hearth, where community and compassion meet. In our latest edition, Megan Lanning from USPS steps into the spotlight, lending her voice to discuss the transformative National Association of Letter Carriers' Food Drive. Discover how this effort not only feeds bodies but also nourishes souls, and learn how you, too, can be a part of this community's story of hope and support.

As the dialogue unfolds, representatives Lynn Staggs from The Storehouse of Henderson County, Emily Sherlin from the Salvation Army, and Elizabeth Moss from IAM offer a poignant look at the challenges our neighbors face, with rising costs making the need for food donations more critical than ever. They share the stark reality of a 52% increase in community needs, painting a picture of the profound difference every contribution can make. This episode is not just a conversation; it's an invitation to extend your hand and lift up those around you.

We round out our exploration with a glimpse into the scenic beauty and community spirit of Western North Carolina's real estate market. But it's more than just properties and picturesque views; it's about how each can of food, each act of kindness, can have a ripple effect across the lives of many. As we close this chapter, remember that supporting the National Letter Carrier's Food Drive is just one of the ways we come together, standing shoulder to shoulder in service and solidarity.

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Speaker 1: 3:14

We have a number of special guests with us this morning to talk about a very special event coming up. Very special event coming up this Saturday, may 11th, is the National Mail Carriers, letter Carriers, national Association of Letter Carriers. There we go N-A-L-C. United States Postal Service. We have Megan Lanning with us with the USPS. Good morning, megan, and we're thankful for you to be here representing USPS and the National Association of Letter Carriers. Did I say that correctly?

Speaker 2: 3:49

You did Good morning.

Speaker 1: 3:50

Good morning. How long have you been with the USPS?

Speaker 2: 3:54

It'll be 10 years in July.

Speaker 1: 3:56

And this event is. I mean, it's a special event and it directly impacts our nonprofits here in Henderson County, but it's the food drive that's coming up this Saturday.

Speaker 2: 4:08

This Saturday, Mother's Day weekend.

Speaker 1: 4:10

Mother's Day weekend and I did a little bit of research and maybe you can help me with this. This actually started in 1993.

Speaker 2: 4:16

It did. This will be the 31st year.

Speaker 1: 4:19

That's amazing and, according to the research I found, 1.82 billion pounds of food have been collected. It's the largest single-day food drive in the United States. It is. How is that possible? I mean, you guys, how does this work? I mean, how can the public get involved, how can they participate? And what does this look like? How can they?

Speaker 2: 4:43

participate. And what does this look like? So a couple days before Saturday, your mail carrier will leave a bag in your mailbox with a card. You don't have to use that bag, you can use anything. A box and just leave it in your mailbox, setting on the mailbox or on the ground, and we'll come by and pick it up.

Speaker 1: 5:02

That's amazing. And have you been part of this? Since you've been part of the USPS? I have, and what does it mean? What does it mean to you personally?

Speaker 2: 5:13

Well, I didn't realize that it was this big of an event until I started at the Postal Service and it makes an incredible difference for the whole community. You know, you see all kinds of people elderly, children in need so it's spread out through locally to our community.

Speaker 1: 5:32

Yeah, it's an incredible impact and we thank you for coming this morning to help spread the word on this. Yeah, thank you. So we have. So there's three specific local nonprofits that directly benefit. So when you give and leave food at your mailbox, we have three representatives from our three nonprofits that participate. You guys have been doing this for a while. Lynn Staggs with the Storehouse of Henderson County I'm going to let you introduce yourself, but then also our other two guests as well.

Speaker 3: 6:02

Thank you. I've been doing this I don't know as long as I can remember now, and with me today is Emily Sherlin from the Salvation Army and Elizabeth Moss from Interfaith Assistance Ministry. And just to tell you this great story about Megan Korn she was out doing pickups on mail carrier's food drive day. Her truck broke down and they brought her truck in full of food on a wrecker and we had to unload the truck from the wrecker. We had to unload the truck and then they gave her another truck and she went back out and got more food.

Speaker 1: 6:42

I mean nothing was going to hold you back.

Speaker 3: 6:44

No, not at all, and I have pictures of this, I believe you.

Speaker 1: 6:49

That's amazing. Now and Lynn, before we have a conversation with Emily and Elizabeth, how much of an impact is this food drive to your organization specifically?

Speaker 3: 6:59

Well, you know, when we first started this, this food carried us for a long time, like a month or two, but because of food prices and our availability to get food now it's like a week's worth of food. We can pass it all out in days.

Speaker 1: 7:17

There's such a need in the community.

Speaker 3: 7:19

Our numbers are up. Last let's see in January our numbers were up 52% to January before.

Speaker 1: 7:27

Wow.

Speaker 3: 7:27

And so it's getting.

Speaker 1: 7:29

So it's even more, it's just more important than ever for the community to give and to step up.

Speaker 3: 7:35

I mean, we are shopping every week from local grocery stores, anywhere we can get it. Farmers, we're just shopping.

Speaker 1: 7:43

Wow, emily. Thank you so much. Emily, you're with the Salvation Army, and how long have you been with the Salvation Army?

Speaker 4: 7:50

I've been with the Salvation Army five years in August and it's a wonderful thing.

Speaker 1: 7:55

And how has this food drive impacted your organization and those you serve?

Speaker 4: 7:59

It impacts our individuals that we serve directly with being able to put that food directly from the food drive into the pantry and into those food boxes so that people can receive the nutritious food that they are looking for. So that really covers, I would say, maybe a fourth to a third of the food that we receive as donations every year through the food drive and so what it does it's very significant and what it does is it helps shift those dollars you know that you are spending on food to a little bit.

Speaker 4: 8:34

Maybe more financial assistance, maybe more in a different area, such as our senior or children's programs, because all the funding in the Salvation Army is donation-based. So we take those donations very seriously and it just has such a huge impact and we, like Lynn, are seeing increased numbers. There are people that are coming to us that haven't been in our food pantry in six or seven years. They're coming back, people who have never come to us and then people who are more consistent in their needing food orders. So it has changed even from the time that I started at the Salvation Army to now. It's just an ever-present need, and so that food drive really helps fill those gaps.

Speaker 1: 9:17

That's amazing. So you know it's interesting. Here we have, you know, the storehouse of Henderson County. Interesting. Here we have the storehouse of Henderson County some 20-some years, 25 years. And then we have the Salvation Army going back to 1865, starting in London with William Booth. Yes, it's an incredible history. And then we have Elizabeth Moss here with us with IAM, and IAM has had an incredible history here in Henderson County too. Elizabeth, how long have you been with IAM? That's fine.

Speaker 5: 9:49

I've been with—good morning everybody. Thanks for having us. I've been with IAM seven years Wow, and this is our 40th anniversary. Oh, congratulations, we were founded in 1984 by the local church and faith community because they saw a need to serve people and they need for a clearinghouse.

Speaker 1: 10:08

And interfaith assistance. Right Ministry, ministry. Iam is a collaboration of churches and it's a—tell us more Again. I mean, pretend someone hasn't heard about IAM before.

Speaker 5: 10:22

It started out that way, but now churches, because they give to nonprofits all over the community. Now they give us about 13% of our support. So we are a 501c3 nonprofit like everybody else and we're independent and we rely on donations and grants.

Speaker 1: 10:45

Well then, the food drive I mean, how impactful is the food drive for IAM.

Speaker 5: 10:49

Well, this food drive is huge and I wanted to make two points to the community. This is a great way to help poor mothers in need, moms who are stressed every day and every week about how they're going to feed their families, senior citizens who are not getting enough food, and there's a couple other points. We're at the highest food costs right now in 40 years.

Speaker 6: 11:17

We've all seen our food-stable donations.

Speaker 5: 11:21

Our canned goods and things like that have gone way down because you go to the grocery store and I know you know how much it costs to shop there, so we're not getting the donations we used to. Thirdly, this is a really slow time of year for giving and this just we can't thank the Postal Service enough for holding this food drive at such an important time and tying it in with Mother's Day, because one in five children in our community are hungry.

Speaker 1: 11:56

Yeah, the food security and food insecurity is a real thing. I mean, and I know I shared earlier, you know again, it's a bit shocking when you hear about our home prices and in our community. It's like two sides of the same coin. I mean one side is incredible prosperity, but on the other side is incredible need. I mean we have both here.

Speaker 5: 12:14

It's really easy not to see it here. It's very easy not to see it. The other point I wanted to make is I think we're up to 130,000 people in our community and we're giving out 25,000 bags. So if you do not get a bag from your mail carrier, please, please, remember to give.

Speaker 1: 12:35

Just because you don't get a bag doesn't mean you can't participate Right Like everybody can participate in this. Exactly Nobody can participate in this.

Speaker 5: 12:41

Exactly, and last year we heard a lot of the donations were down during Snap Out Hunger and we heard a lot of well, we didn't get a bag.

Speaker 1: 12:50

You don't have to have a bag.

Speaker 5: 12:51

Please, please, any bag with non-perishables will help.

Speaker 1: 12:56

That's right and that's why we're here today. We want to make sure and spread the word to our listeners here, and I know you guys are spreading the word to your networks. Again, there's an opportunity. You don't even have to leave your home. You just have to walk to your mailbox and leave the donations and then you know the mail carriers are delivering it and then you guys have this distribution, I mean all the food's coming together.

Speaker 5: 13:22

Correct and we take turns. We look forward to working with each other. Every year we load one truck and then another truck. We just take turns sharing the food. Just to show you how much need there is before the pandemic, if we served 30 families in a day with a full week's of grocery which is what we do that was a lot. We're now serving 75 families a day and on Tuesdays 150 to 200. And then we have our mobile pantry too.

Speaker 1: 13:53

Your numbers have grown exponentially, exponentially, since the pandemic.

Speaker 5: 13:58

Yep.

Speaker 1: 13:59

That's staggering. I mean thank you for sharing that Again. The need is real here in Henderson.

Speaker 5: 14:05

County and we're all feeling it. We all talk at the Hunger Coalition. We're all seeing the same trends.

Speaker 1: 14:11

And to your point, you know single mothers, you know elderly, I mean like the need is across all demographics.

Speaker 5: 14:24

And the new people that Emily mentioned, seeing people we've never seen before. And it's hard for people to come and ask for help.

Speaker 1: 14:27

It is. It's very humbling and again but again, there's power in being and asking and speaking up, and then it's one of those things if you don't speak up, I mean there are resources here in the community for those that need help, but you've got to speak up. I mean that's the first step someone has to take. It's also interesting I also was reading this food drive. Strategically, this time of year is held in the spring, as a lot of school meal programs pause for the summer, and so there's that gap for children who depend on the school meals Very much. So you want to speak more to that?

Speaker 4: 15:02

I mean because again it's just the food.

Speaker 1: 15:05

Insecurities of families.

Speaker 4: 15:06

Oh yeah, well, it's definitely. You know, when the school year ends, it's definitely something that we see the increased need for food. In regards to children, of course, we have our summer day camp, so we see a lot of those children in our building, but that's you know. Food that they're getting on a consistent basis is reduced. So I think we see a lot of need.

Speaker 3: 15:27

When they go to school, they get breakfast, they get lunch, so they're guaranteed two meals a day. When they're not in school, you know not so much.

Speaker 1: 15:37

Yeah, and that's something all of Henderson County schools, I think, now offer is the two meals a day. Yes, absolutely, which is significant two meals a day.

Speaker 3: 15:43

Yes, absolutely.

Speaker 1: 15:45

Which is significant.

Speaker 3: 15:46

Very much so.

Speaker 1: 15:47

And that just is a recent program.

Speaker 3: 15:49

The last few years, the last few years I mean.

Speaker 1: 15:51

But what a difference. And again got to give credit to those programs helping make a difference with food insecurities. So this event is May 11th that's Mother's Day weekend but it's this Saturday, may 11th. You do not need a bag to participate. Thank you, elizabeth, for bringing that up. I mean you do not need a bag to participate. Leave a plastic bag, leave a brown bag, I mean whatever. Leave it for your mail carriers. On Saturday.

Speaker 1: 16:19

It's a nation's largest, largest single day food drive in the United States, started in 1993 and organized by the National Association of Letter Carriers. There I got that and then over 1.82 billion pounds of food. Again, food insecurity is real and again you know the prosperity that our community has. Again, on the other side of the coin, there is great need so you can make a difference in someone's life. This food and your donations stay local, which is so important to remember. So we have Elizabeth Moss with IAM here, emily Sherlin with Salvation Army, megan Lanning with USPS and then Lynn Staggs with the Storehouse. We have a short break coming up. We're so thankful for all four of you being here this morning. And we Lynn Staggs with the Storehouse. We have a short break coming up. We're so thankful for all four of you being here this morning and we'll continue the conversation.

Speaker 1: 17:09

You're listening to the George Willis Group live radio broadcast here on the Q every Monday morning. Again, we love sharing incredible information about the things going on in our community that make a difference in our community. It's what makes our community so special is the generosity that's in our community and, again, it's contagious, and so we wanted to share the news about this upcoming event, may 11th, and you can participate in that. But stay tuned in, we have a short break. We'll be right back. Welcome back.

Speaker 1: 17:38

You're listening to the Georgia Real Estate Group live radio broadcast here on the QQ, sharing with you positive news about our community and opportunities to give back, and we talk a little bit about the real estate market. The real estate market is fascinating here, and North Carolina is one of the top five incoming migrated states and I think we're going to continue to see that. I mean, for all the amazing things that we love to call Hendersonville and Western North Carolina home, people are coming here. They're leaving other areas. They're coming here for all the reasons, again quality of life, the community, the outdoor activities, the things you can do, and, again, community, so, and the thing that makes our community amazing is the generosity, and we've been talking about the National Letter Carrier's food drive this Saturday, may 11th, and again we're encouraging our listeners and encouraging the community to leave non-perishable food items non-perishable food items and items that are current, not expired, and you can certainly get some ideas of what to do there.

Speaker 1: 18:43

It does matter. Again, this food is being distributed. So we have three local nonprofits Salvation Army, iam and Storehouse that work together, and that's another testimony to our community that how our nonprofits play so well together and work well and collaborate. But we were just talking during the break again, that not only is our home prices high, but rent prices are extremely high too, and so that, along with utility bills, again there's just a great need, and so maybe you can't help somebody with their rent or their utilities, but you can make a difference by donating food, because anything helps and that just goes. Every little bit goes a long way, and so, again, you know this is just one aspect you know, and maybe one of you three can share you know what percentage of what you're doing is food versus other services.

Speaker 5: 19:36

IAM offers crisis services rent assistance, utility bill assistance. We have a clothing closet with all free clothing. We do a back-to-school drive for kids so they all have a new outfit to wear. We do holiday meals, but the percentage of we're up to 90% of people who come for assistance also get food.

Speaker 1: 19:59

Really.

Speaker 5: 20:00

And we served in our impact report. Last year we provided 83,974 service touches to 18,846 unique individuals and 5,385 unique households. So of those 5,385 unique households, 5,112 received food.

Speaker 1: 20:26

Wow, and just going back, I mean I think the numbers and they're going up. I mean we shared about how the numbers are exponentially growing, but you said 18,000 unique impacts. And we have 120,000, 130,000 people in the community.

Speaker 5: 20:45

We serve 1 in 11 households in the community.

Speaker 1: 20:48

That is staggering. Yeah, those are some real. That's incredible.

Speaker 5: 20:52

People don't understand how much need there is. Wow there is Wow. I mean, if you look at everything from the cost of utilities are soaring and could go into a long detailed report about what happened during COVID and people are on payment plans and they can't make the payment plans. Yeah, it's a ripple effect it all ties together and becomes a cost of living crisis for our people who are moderate income and people who are very poor, which 13% of Hendersonville are at the poverty level.

Speaker 1: 21:29

Thank you for sharing that Just staggering.

Speaker 3: 21:31

A lot of the people at the poverty level. They have jobs, but minimum wage jobs that are working in the places that serve that $500,000 household. That's not enough to make ends meet here.

Speaker 1: 21:47

That's where the gap is. It's a real crisis Costs of living income, wages and then….

Speaker 5: 21:57

There's one other critical piece to it the rent and that we don't have public transportation Once someone's car breaks down.

Speaker 1: 22:05

Oh, you're in trouble.

Speaker 5: 22:06

They're out.

Speaker 4: 22:06

This is not a walking town.

Speaker 1: 22:08

Right, that's an interesting, because in order to get affordable rent.

Speaker 3: 22:12

You have to move out.

Speaker 1: 22:14

Yeah, so the public transportation is a gap.

Speaker 4: 22:17

We have some. It just doesn't serve all Right.

Speaker 1: 22:22

WCCA, I mean has a gap?

Speaker 4: 22:24

Yeah, because we're across the street from the largest bus stop in the county.

Speaker 2: 22:28

Right.

Speaker 4: 22:28

So we see it all day long, but it's just not enough to meet, but it's not enough and it doesn't go far enough.

Speaker 5: 22:33

The routes don't go to the poor.

Speaker 4: 22:34

Yeah, they stop.

Speaker 5: 22:35

They're parts of our community and they don't run the second and third shifts or the weekend.

Speaker 1: 22:39

Yeah, so I mean it's a gap.

Speaker 5: 22:41

Yeah, I mean they do a good job at what they do.

Speaker 1: 22:44

Yes, but yeah. So again, you said 90% is food-related. Is that a high percentage for Salvation Army as well?

Speaker 4: 22:54

Oh, very much, Very much so.

Speaker 1: 22:57

And then I mean everything you're doing at the storehouse is food related as well.

Speaker 3: 23:01

Yeah, and then in October then we kick in with Christmas. So we have two components to ours too.

Speaker 1: 23:08

It's incredible.

Speaker 5: 23:09

That's why we started our mobile pantry to go to the places where people are. It's like the food desert type places where they lack transportation and we bring it to them. We also provide food for Latino families, as well as traditional American food.

Speaker 3: 23:26

And that's why we started senior delivery routes, because we're going all over the county because these seniors have no way to get to us.

Speaker 1: 23:33

Again the logistics. And here's the amazing thing. And here's the amazing thing Again you can leave food at your mailbox. This. Saturday and then it's going to get distributed through these three incredible organizations.

Speaker 3: 23:45

And it'll even get brought in by tow truck if needed.

Speaker 4: 23:48

That's right, that's right, megan.

Speaker 1: 24:01

any feedback again for best practices, for those wanting to give again non-perishable items current, not not expired.

Speaker 2: 24:04

You don't need a bag. Um, be careful of glass. Yeah, um again, yeah, you don't have to use the bag that we provide. Anything will do. Um, if you have more than others and you're willing and able to contribute, we'll take it. We'll do all the hard work. Um, it's a really humbling experience when we pull back in to the annex and have so many communities helping unload even Boy Scouts or Girl Scouts or kids unloading our truck for us doing all the work. So that's really humbling to see the community come together and distribute it locally.

Speaker 1: 24:39

That's amazing really humbling to see the community come together and distribute it locally. That's amazing. Do we have numbers on how much was collected historically? No, I mean, I mean I know it's a lot of food that's collected for Henderson County and, to your point, one of you said it was down last year.

Speaker 3: 24:53

It was about 18,000 pounds. I think.

Speaker 1: 25:00

Between the three of us, wow. So again there's a great need and so we wanted to have and we want to thank you all four of you for coming this morning to get the word out and to share Again. All three of you and your organizations are doing incredible work in the community and this is a shot in the arm. This is like a and it's a significant impact on what you guys are doing year round. But this time of the year, in the spring, you can give. Again.

Speaker 1: 25:23

It's the largest single day food drive in the United States organized by the National Association of Letter Carriers since 1993. And again you can participate. This Saturday, may 11th, you can plan ahead. Again the letter carriers are going to pick it up from your mailbox. You can participate. And again the food stays here locally and I appreciate the three of you sharing. Again, it's so fascinating. Again there's two sides of the coin great prosperity here, but also great need and if you're fortunate to be in the group that's experiencing a lot of abundance. I mean you can share that. Every little bit goes so far in making a difference in someone else's life. Anything else, in wrapping up, that you guys would want to say.

Speaker 3: 26:09

Yeah, this mail carrier knows where you live, so your bag better be by the mail carrier.

Speaker 1: 26:15

That's what mail carriers? Yeah, when you meet a mail carrier, they're like what's your name? Oh, I know what street you're on.

Speaker 5: 26:21

I just want to thank, on behalf of all of us, the letter carriers again, because their work is hard to begin with, and this is extra hard.

Speaker 7: 26:30

It is A hard job for them.

Speaker 5: 26:32

So thank you so much for your willingness to do this and caring about the people you serve and we serve.

Speaker 2: 26:39

Thank you all.

Speaker 1: 26:40

And it's incredible, I mean everybody participates from. I mean it's already hard work, what you're doing every day, and then on top of this.

Speaker 1: 26:49

Again, thank you so much. Thank you, elizabeth, for saying that Well to our listeners. Again, I hope you participate this Saturday, may 11th, mother's Day. I want to wish a happy Mother's Day to all our mothers out there. And again, a lot to be thankful for. And again, it's amazing when you give, because they say, when you give, I mean you're experiencing. And there's just this experience. When you give, I mean you're making a difference in someone else's life. But it's amazing for the giver as well to have that experience too. So I'd encourage you to try. If you've never participated before, maybe this is your year to do that. Again, you can make a difference here in Henderson County. So grateful to be here. Every Monday morning You're listening to the Georgia Real Estate Group live radio broadcast. Be sure to subscribe or, if we can help you in any way, give us a call at 828-393-0134. Have a great day, have a great week and we'll see you next Monday.

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