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BRIEF: Christmas in July Food Drive begins this week

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Starting Thursday Positive Life Radio will be collecting canned food, nonperishable food items and toiletries to deliver to food banks around the Inland Northwest.

Items needed most are:

  • Bath Soap
  • Bath Tissue
  • Diapers
  • Shampoo
  • Toothpaste and Brush
  • Female products
  • Any Type of Pasta: 1 lb bags
  • Canned Tomato products – 16 oz
  • Dried Milk
  • Cereal
  • Saltines
  • Canned Protein – Tuna
  • Peanut Butter
  • Canned beans – 12/16oz
  • Soups

Items can be dropped off from noon to 6 p.m. at the following locations:

  • Spokane Valley – the parking lot of Costco on Sprague
  • North Spokane -the parking lot of Better Living Center on North Division and N. Foothills Drive
  • Coeur d’ Alene – the parking lot of Super 1 Foods on Kathleen Ave.
  • Post Falls – the parking lot of Super 1 Foods on N. Idaho Street and Polston Ave

For information about the drive call 800-355-475.7

Tracy Simmons
Tracy Simmons
Tracy Simmons is an award-winning journalist specializing in religion reporting and digital entrepreneurship. In her approximate 20 years on the religion beat, Simmons has tucked a notepad in her pocket and found some of her favorite stories aboard cargo ships in New Jersey, on a police chase in Albuquerque, in dusty Texas church bell towers, on the streets of New York and in tent cities in Haiti. Simmons has worked as a multimedia journalist for newspapers across New Mexico, Texas, Connecticut and Washington. She is the executive director of FāVS.News, a digital journalism start-up covering religion news and commentary in Spokane, Washington. She also writes for The Spokesman-Review and national publications. She is a Scholarly Associate Professor of Journalism at Washington State University.
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