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ATTENTION! THE ILLINOIS VALLEY FOOD PANTRY IS IN NEED OF SOME IMPORTANT ITEMS AND WE ARE ASKING OUR COMMUNITY FOR SOME HELP TO OBTAIN THE FOLLOWING ITEMS. 🥰🥰🥰 EGG CARTONS: The pantry has been blessed with some egg donations however, we are in need of egg cartons to put them in. If anyone has empty, clean egg cartons, please consider donating them to the Illinois Valley Food Pantry! LAUNDRY DETERGENT: We appreciate any help to get laundry detergent at the pantry for our clients in need! Our inventory has diminished. The Illinois Valley Food Pantry appreciates all of the support our wonderful community provides to assist us with helping our community in need! Thank you all for your wonderful support! 🤗🤗🤗
The Illinois Valley Food Pantry is happy to announce that 3,292 pounds of food was collected for the Pantry during the NALC "Stamp Out Hunger" food drive that took place on Saturday, May 13th, 2023! The Pantry also received $140.00 in monetary donations! Thank you to everyone in our community and across the country that donated to this annual food drive to help Pantries stock their shelves. Thank You to all of the postal workers who volunteered their time to go around picking up the food donations and delivering to the Pantries. Your generosity is greatly appreciated!! A very special Thank You to our local postal workers (especially Mark Zymunt!) Even as Mark was dealing with a recent death in his family, he still found the time to volunteer his services in many aspects with this food drive to help the Illinois Valley Food Pantry! Your kindness and support to our cause is always so very much appreciated!!! 🥰🥰🥰
THANK YOU KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS # 792 LASALLE!!! The pork tenderloin fry that was held on February 4th, 2023 at the Knights of Columbus, LaSalle was a great success!!!! The event raised $1,421.00 for the Illinois Valley Food Pantry! A special thank you to George Green and his son Jake who coordinated and worked the event. Jake, your pork tenderloins were awesome!!!! A big thank you to everyone who attended and donated to the pantry. We are so grateful for everyone's support!!!! 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰
PACK THE RACKS EVENT RESULTS!!! The "Pack The Racks" food drive was held on September 3rd, 2021 at HyVee and it was a huge success! The Illinois Valley food pantry received 2,132 pounds of food and non-food donations and $2,500 monetary donations. A big heartfelt THANK YOU! goes out to everyone that shopped at HyVee and donated that day! The pantry also extends their gratitude to the sponsors of the "Pack the Racks" event..... SGKR Injury Attorneys, LifeTime of Smiles, HyVee and Studstill Media THANK YOU ALL FOR MAKING THIS EVENT A GREAT SUCCESS!!🥰
A very heartfelt THANK YOU!!! to Nancy at Steak n Shake for organizing this food drive for the Illinois Valley Food Pantry!
Knight of Columbus "Hunger Blitz" Food Drive!! 🥰 On February 1st, 2020, from 8AM - 4PM, the Utica Knights of Columbus is conducting their 19th annual "Hunger Blitz" food drive for the Illinois Valley Food Pantry! The participating stores are; Save-A-Lot - LaSalle Illinois Valley Food & Deli - LaSalle Wal-Mart Supercenter - Peru Hy-Vee - Peru This is a very important event for IVFP! It really helps us restock our shelves from the holidays! There will be K of C volunteers handing out 'wish lists' to shoppers of items needed at IVFP. Items needed..... Canned Veggies, fruit, juices, pasta meals Spaghetti Sauce Pasta Mac & Cheese Hamburger & Tuna Helper Tuna Fish Pork & Beans Coffee Cereal Sugar Flour Baby Products Paper Products Monetary Donations IVFP also has freezers and coolers for perishable items! THANK YOU Utica K of C for sponsoring this event! And, Thank you to all of our supporters! 🥰