• What: Clark County’s biggest, all-volunteer, single-day food drive
• When: 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday
• Where: Throughout the county. Put donations out at your doorstep by 9 a.m.
• Volunteering and information: Call 877-995-6625 or go to www.walkandknock.org
• To donate money: Send a check made payable to Inter-Service Walk and Knock, P.O. Box 353, Vancouver, WA 98666
• The bag: It is in today’s Columbian
Walk & Knock is going for the record.
To celebrate a quarter century of community giving, and to mark the toughest economic recession since that effort got started, the annual event’s organizers are hoping Clark County can come up with 156 tons of donated food for the hungry.
The 25th annual Interservice Walk & Knock, the county’s biggest single-day food drive, is set as always for the first Saturday in December. Volunteers will scour doorsteps for donations left in bags and boxes. The donations will be taken back to one of several locations for boxing and packing into trucks. The trucks will take the food to a warehouse loaned for a week by the Port of Vancouver; there, the food will be weighed and divided for pickup by local food pantries.
The record for food collected by Interservice Walk & Knock was set at 155 tons in 2002. The average amount is 132 tons. Last year, it was more than 140 tons (plus $35,000 in cash). But given the economic landscape and the explosion of need in every neighborhood, Walk & Knock organizers are hoping to blow right past these numbers and set a new record.