Preparations are underway for Clark County’s largest annual food drive. But it can’t be Clark County’s largest annual food drive without you.
Walk and Knock, a Clark County tradition since the mid-1980s, sends thousands of volunteers into the streets on the first Saturday in December. They collect bags of donated food from porches and driveways and transport them to a warehouse donated by the Port of Vancouver. Eventually the donations are distributed by local food banks to needy people all over the county.
“Last year we broke all our previous records,” said Walk and Knock president Joe Pauletto. “We collected over 162 tons of food and $50,000.”
That kind of success can come only with a huge volunteer effort. Last year there were 4,500 volunteers.