RFCU Partners with ACCESS and the Josephine County Food Bank to Stamp Out Hunger

(Medford, OR) - The credit union difference is evident every day in the service credit unions provide to their members and to their community. On Saturday, May 12, 2007 forty-four Rogue Federal employees volunteered their time to ACCESS Inc. and the Josephine County Food Bank for their 2007 Letter Carriers Food Drive and Senior Food Box Repack Projects.

In the morning, Rogue Federal employees repacked over 25,000 pounds of food into 750 Senior Food Boxes that will provide nutritional food for the months of May and June to low-income seniors in the valley. "The need continues to increase, over the first three months of this year the ACCESS network of food pantries distributed over 10,000 emergency food boxes all across the country. This is the largest 3-month total ever, but thanks to Rogue Federal volunteers we will be able to continue to meet the need over the next few months," commented Philip Yates, ACCESS Nutrition Programs Manager.

In the afternoon there were two groups that sorted and repacked almost 50,000 pounds of food that came in from the Letter Carriers Food Drive. The Letter Carriers' Food Drive was a great success exceeding last year's total and raising over 76,800 pounds of food for the hungry in Jackson County. In Josephine County, another group of Rogue Federal employees unloaded and sorted 31,749 pounds of food.