Helping to 'stamp' out hunger...

A volunteer from Mountain Home Air Force Base was among those working to unload food from mail carrier vehicles that day. While the amount collected this year was about 1,000 pounds less than last year's total, the donations provide needed help to local area food banks. Among them was the El-Ada Community Action Agency, whose shelves were starting to run bare. The postal effort provided El-Ada and local charities with enough food to restock their food pantry shelves.

Volunteers from El-Ada, Grace Lutheran Church and First Southern Baptist Church sort through bags of donated food before everything is loaded into trailers during the U.S. Post Office's 25th Annual Letter Carriers Food Drive across America on Saturday. Local postal workers collected nearly 5,900 pounds of canned goods and non-perishable food Saturday. Donations were collected as the postal workers in Mountain Home and nearby Mountain Home Air Force Base ran their normal routes earlier that day.