{"id":171203,"date":"2026-04-20T21:54:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T21:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/171203\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T21:54:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T21:54:11","slug":"volunteers-prepare-as-food-truck-food-drive-targets-10000-lbs-of-donations-nazareth-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/171203\/","title":{"rendered":"Volunteers prepare as Food Truck Food Drive targets 10,000 lbs. of donations | Nazareth Area"},"content":{"rendered":"

E. ALLEN TWP., Pa. – We’re just days away from the 10th annual “Food Truck Food Drive”.<\/p>\n

WFMZ is teaming up with Dorney Park and GIANT to host the drive at the amusement park in South Whitehall Township.<\/p>\n

You can help us reach our goal of raising 10,000 pounds of food for Second Harvest Food Bank of the Lehigh Valley and Northeast Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n

69 News reporter Cierra Genelle stopped by the food bank in Northampton County on Monday to see what donations they are looking for.<\/p>\n

“It’s neighbors helping neighbors,” said Sarah Wassel, Associate Executive Director of the Second Harvest Food Bank<\/p>\n

The warehouse in East Allen Township is making extra space for donations to pile in.<\/p>\n

“This food is for any of our neighbors within the six-county region that we serve,” said Wassel.<\/p>\n

On Saturday, April 25, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., stop on by Dorney Park’s parking lot and drop off your donations.<\/p>\n

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“You drive through with your car,” said Wassel. “We have volunteers there who are willing to grab the stuff right out of your car.”<\/p>\n

Then, you can grab a bite to eat from some of your favorite local food trucks.<\/p>\n

If you’re wondering what to donate, Wassel says to think about non-perishable proteins and non-expired products packaged in boxes, cans and plastic.<\/p>\n

“Such as canned tuna, canned chicken, canned salmon, pasta and rice and peanut butter and jelly,” Wassel explained.<\/p>\n

Child-friendly foods and personal care items are also accepted.<\/p>\n

Donations can be as simple as whatever is already in your pantry.<\/p>\n

“We have multiple bins that we collect all the food. We actually sort it right there,” said Wassel.<\/p>\n

Immediately following the food drive, volunteers will then box up the donations at the Second Harvest Food Bank warehouse and distribute them to food pantries throughout the Lehigh Valley.<\/p>\n

“It will get very busy. So basically, we’ll start making shifts two or three times a week, three-hour shifts, where volunteers will come,” said Omar Perez, Commodity Supplemental Food Program Supervisor of the Second Harvest Food Bank.<\/p>\n

Perez showed us how volunteers organize the donations and tape the boxes before they are distributed.<\/p>\n

“We don’t want to make it too heavy where the participant can’t carry it, but we don’t want to make it too light either,” said Perez.<\/p>\n

“When you say you don’t want to make the box ‘too heavy’, the fact that you have the opportunity to make that box heavy, shows a lot of people are donating. How does that feel?” asked Genelle.<\/p>\n

“Oh, it’s amazing. There is a big need. Knowing that the community comes together to help us out just fills everybody here’s heart,” said Perez.<\/p>\n

Organizers say the event is rain or shine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"E. ALLEN TWP., Pa. – We’re just days away from the 10th annual “Food Truck Food Drive”. WFMZ…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":171204,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154,5705,524,4509,8790,5706,2343,157,13397,5716,4345],"class_list":{"0":"post-171203","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bethlehem","8":"tag-bethlehem","9":"tag-bethlehem-headlines","10":"tag-bethlehem-news","11":"tag-charity","12":"tag-community","13":"tag-donations","14":"tag-dorney-park","15":"tag-food-bank","16":"tag-food-drive","17":"tag-lehigh-valley","18":"tag-non-perishable-food","19":"tag-second-harvest-food-bank","20":"tag-volunteers"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171203\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/171204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}