Utah Food Bank

FARMINGTON -- More than 3,000 volunteers are expected to participate in Comcast Cares Day along the Wasatch Front on Saturday.

The communitywide day of service is to take place from 8 a.m. to noon.

More than 3,000 individuals, consisting of community volunteers, Comcast employees and their families, will provide service at 12 locations up and down the Wasatch Front -- including a project in Forbush Park at 100 S. Main St. in Farmington, said Ray Child, an event organizer.

SOUTH OGDEN -- DreamMaker Bath & Kitchen is collecting donations for the Utah Food Bank.

The collection box is inside the Tuscan Ridge building at 1523 E. Skyline Drive, in the DreamMaker showroom.

People who bring in a donation for the Food Bank before Dec. 25 can enter to win one of two 32-inch flat-screen TVs that DreamMaker will give away. Winners will be notified Dec. 31.

RIVERDALE -- The efforts of members, employees and visitors at America First Credit Unions mean hungry Utahns are less at risk today.

On Thursday, America First donated about 400 turkeys and a similar supply of donated nonperishable food to the Utah Food Bank, which will redistribute the items to the 154 partner agencies it serves.

OGDEN -- Westinghouse's Western Zirconium Plant has donated $5,000 to the Joyce Hansen Hall Food Bank.

The donation was prompted by a story Sunday in the Standard-Examiner detailing the struggle the food bank has experienced this summer, the company said.

SALT LAKE CITY -- The Utah Food Bank is issuing a plea for donations of food or cash, saying it could exhaust its food supply in one month without help.

OGDEN -- The morning started out cold, but as J.D. VanLingeveld got moving, he quickly warmed up.

The Boy Scout from Troop 99 said he was happy to wake up early Saturday morning if it would help feed the hungry.

"There are a lot of people who are hungry," he said. "We collected a lot of food. Some of the sacks were so heavy with food that they started ripping open. It was great."

Cub Scouts and Boy Scouts collected food from every neighborhood across the state and nation Saturday.

OGDEN -- "WANTED: The poor, the downtrodden and those with heavy burdens."

If C.L.U.B.B. Jesus were to put out a classified advertisement for its newly expanded food pantry, the above statement likely is how it would read.

Two weeks into becoming a weekly drop site for the Utah Food Bank, volunteers at the young church said they want to help as many people as they can. Their only problem, they say, is getting the word out.