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Various News Photos! The 2009 Letter Carriers Annual Food Drive was a huge success. The Cooperative Feeding Program filled two warehouses full of food with the bounty collect on Mother's Day weekend. This annual event helps feed American families with the millions of tons of food collected. At our 16 branches, over 256,000 pounds of food was collected. That's about eight of these big, long tractor trailer rigs filled. Here we are after emptying the last truck on Mom's Day. Our deepest thanks to Letter Carrier's Union 2550 for their tremendous support each year and to the hundreds of volunteers who assist us in making this happen. Thanks to the tens of thousands of Broward's families who set out food to be shared with the needy. What an amazing event! Thanks to each of you who played a part in this food drive's success. We will feed families for three-four months with this food!  Cooperative Feeding Program Development Director Scott Woodburn handed out awards to the Galt Ocean Mile team captains who walked to fight hunger in the annual Galt Ocean Mile Walk-a-thon. Board vice chair Domenic Faro, R, presents a mini shopping cart ward to team captain Ann Marie Adams. The walk raised food, money and lots of awareness about hunger in our community.   Students and faculty of South Plantation High School held their annual Empty Bowl Dinner to raise hunger awareness and badly needed dollars for The Cooperative Feeding Program. The student create their own pottery bowls to sell at the event. Culinary students prepare an assortment of homemade soups to sample to benefit The Cooperative Feeding Program.          The Cooperative Feeding Program believes that we can help teach our low-income families ways to save their food dollars, yet provide healthy meals for their kids. One way we did this was through our "What a Crock" class. Volunteers from The Ft. Lauderdale Unitarian Universalist Church came with ready made meals in their own personal crock pots to teach the attendees how to cook well on less. They prepared written recipes for the "taste" and about seven different crock pot meals were sampled and the recipes shared. Jarden Consumer Solutions provided all the families with new crock pots to take home to try the recipes. Our mission was to create healthy family-style crock pot meals for under $5.00. We did it and provided the recipes for our families to prepare the same dishes in their own homes. 
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