A recap of 2024’s Food Drive.

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Every year our colleagues at KHUM Radio link up with local high schoolers and — for the last eight years — Sen. Mike McGuire to throw the biggest danged fundraiser/foodraiser for Food For People, our local food bank, that they can possibly throw. 

It’s the annual food drive, and it’s on right now!

Every day this week, KHUM will be broadcasting live from the following locations between noon and 6 p.m.:

  • Tuesday Dec. 9th - Wildberries
  • Wednesday Dec. 10th - North Coast Co-Op (Eureka)
  • Thursday Dec. 11th - Safeway (Eureka)
  • Friday Dec. 12th - Eureka Natural Foods (Eureka)

Thursday at Safeway is the big day, when the senator will be on hand to welcome and tally up the donations collected by local high schools. A winner will be declared! You are welcome to come by!

What else can you do to help? Bring down some non-perishable foods — or throw some extras in your cart, if you happen to be shopping at one of those places at one of those times — and give it to your friendly local KHUM deejay at the front of the store. And say hello!

Or: Money! Food For People will take money, too. That kind of donation has the advantage of never going bad, plus it allows Food For People to be a little more flexible based on need.

Make the scene! Here’s a press release from Sen. Mike McGuire:

Sen. McGuire’s TENTH ANNUAL Humboldt Holiday Food Drive is this Thursday, December 11th from 3-6 p.m. at the Eureka Safeway. 

Now the largest on the North Coast, the Food Drive will benefit Humboldt’s Food Bank, Food for People, and the 21,000 Humboldt residents who rely on the organization each month. Behind the scenes of the annual six-week Food Drive are thousands of students from six area high schools (Arcata, Eureka, Ferndale, Fortuna, McKinleyville & St. Bernard’s) who have been hosting their own food drives on school campuses across Humboldt this fall. All the proceeds from the student food drives will be delivered between 3 p.m. and 6 p.m. on Thursday, December 11 to the Eureka Safeway.

Since 2016, the Food Drive has raised more than a quarter million dollars and 177,000 pounds of food for our neighbors in need. The Holiday Food Drive makes a life-changing impact in Food for People’s ability to sustain their work to feed hungry families and seniors. Each year, enough food and funds are raised from the Holiday Food Drive to sustain the food bank’s needs through early spring.

This year, Food for People is facing the biggest challenges yet in their organization’s history with the massive cuts to SNAP, the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, which will strip food assistance for 5.5 million needy Californians each year. This has created a perfect storm in our community and historic demand at Food for People as we enter the holiday season.  

That’s why Senator McGuire and Food for People are rallying to collect truckloads of food – and monetary donations – to help neighbors in need.

What: Humboldt Holiday Food Drive
When: December 11 from 3-6pm
Where: Eureka Safeway, 2555 Harris Street
Why: The need has never been greater.
Donate Here: Donation Form