The Jefferson County Extension Homemakers Council are bringing back “Fill the Truck” food drive during the 86th annual Southeast Arkansas District Fair.
Extension Homemakers Club members will accept healthy, non-perishable unexpired food from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Sept. 26 at Hestand Stadium Fairgrounds, 420 N. Blake St.
The community is asked to participate. Club members will be there to help you. By donating food or money you will be helping families in need of food security.
“Please help us with food insecurity in Jefferson County,” Patricia Burton, JCEHC community service chairman, said in a news release. “We need your help to make the Fill the Truck food drive successful.”
Burton said families in the community rely on organizations like EHC to help with food for their households. Without these programs many individuals would not have adequate meals.
EHC members donate food during the year to pantries including Neighbor to neighbor, Salvation Army, Transformation Project, and White Hall Food Pantry.
EHC’s community service projects for fiscal year 2025 include assisting Common Grounds and Hope of the Delta, knitting caps for cancer patients and sewing teaching dolls for Arkansas Children’s Hospital, and baking cookies for first responders, news media, nurses, and elected officials. A community health fair will be held at the same time as Fill the Truck. If you are interested in being a health fair vendor, call Jefferson County family and consumer sciences agent and EHC adviser, Mary Ann Kizer, at (870) 534-1033 for a vendor application form or email mkizer@uada.edu.