Potato Drop Volunteers Needed

The conference Board of Global Ministries (BOGM) and the Society of St. Andrew (SoSA) are co-sponsoring a Potato Drop, Tuesday, June 17, at 5:30 a.m.

The potatoes will provide 120,000-135,000 servings of food to the region’s poor and hungry.

SoSA is delivering a tractor-trailer filled with more than 20 tons of donated sweet potatoes to Roanoke and the BOGM is helping to cover the cost of shipping. The truck will arrive in the predawn hours and the potatoes will be dumped at the far end of Parking Lot A at the Roanoke Civic Center, facing the intersection of Williamson Road and Orange Avenue. Volunteers are needed to help bag and load the potatoes for pickup by regional food banks, church pantries, soup kitchens, and other local feeding agencies. Bagging is expected to be completed before 7:30 a.m.

For more information about the national, nonprofit food salvage, hunger-relief work of the SoSA, or about the Virginia Annual Conference Potato Drop, contact Judy Bair at 1-800-333-4597.