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Gen. Mike Minihan, Commander of Air Mobility Command, visits the Niagara Falls Air Reserve Station June 8, 2024.

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18th Annual National Association of Letter Carriers Food Drive

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  • By Staff Sgt. Joseph McKee
  • 914th Airlift Wing Public Affairs
Niagara Falls Air Reserve Station --  Braving the wind and rain volunteers gathered at the Lassalle Station Post Office to help letter carriers collect food during the 18th Annual National Association of Letter Carriers Food Drive. This food drive being the largest in the country "There's always a need for extra hands because it's gotten so enormous that it's gotten hard for our letter carriers to carry the mail and gather food at same time," said Mr. Walt Wrazin a Niagara Falls letter carrier and co-chairman of the local drive. Wrazin added "no matter how much residents leave out for them, letter carriers and volunteer members of the 914th Airlift Wing will be able to take it away. Anything that won't perish, we'll be able to get it, Food pantries usually hit a dry spell right about now, and this drive helps them fill their shelves for most of the summer."
Last year the Niagara community alone collected 170,000 pounds of food, helping to make Western New York the second-largest food collector in the drive for 2008, with 2 million pounds. The previous five years, the Buffalo and Niagara area was No. 1 in the nation. Food collected during Saturday's drive will be given to 12 local food pantries.