An Iowa Western Community College community service project seeks to collect donations of canned food this week, in Atlantic. According to Leigh Ann Wolfe-Dawson, Communications Instructor at the IWCC Atlantic campus, students in the Monday-Wednesday & Friday Public Speaking class created a “Can the Cart” Food Drive to seek donations for the Atlantic Food Pantry. Their project was spurred by a visit to the Food Pantry, in September.

Each day this week (Monday thru Friday) a grocery cart will be in the entryway at the IWCC Cass County Center in Atlantic. A glass jar to collect spare change and monetary donations will be on the IWCC front counter to help Change Hunger too. On Wednesday, October 30th, from 2-until 3-p.m. canned food donations and monetary donations will be accepted in the IWCC parking lot, in Atlantic. Simply drive-up and donate your canned food and/or money, to benefit the Atlantic Food Pantry.

Wolfw-Dawson said their students don’t want anyone to be hungry and they want to do what they Can to help our community and local food pantry. Hy-Vee has graciously let the students borrow a grocery Cart. The goal is to fill that empty grocery cart with canned food and nonperishable items and donate those items and the monetary donations to the Atlantic Food Pantry.

The best Items to donate include: Canned Fruit, Canned Peas, Canned Pork and Beans, Canned Tomato Soup, Canned Chicken Noodle Soup, Canned Tuna, Canned Beef Ravioli, Jiffy Corn Muffin Mix, Macaroni and Cheese, Hamburger Helper, Cereal, Sides of Pasta and Sauce, Peanut Butter, Toilet Paper, Liquid Laundry Detergent, and basically anything, including monetary donations.