Sat, Aug 15th 2026 08:00 am<\/p>\n
Erie County Fair press release<\/p>\n
The Erie County Fair is proud to announce that fairgoers donated\u00a0160,905 pounds\u00a0of food\u00a0during the opening-day food drive on Aug. 12, benefiting\u00a0FeedMore\u00a0WNY and helping the longtime partnership achieve a remarkable milestone.\u00a0<\/p>\n
With this year’s collection, the Erie County Fair and\u00a0FeedMore\u00a0WNY have now collected a cumulative\u00a01,036,861 pounds\u00a0of food since the opening-day food drive partnership began in 2013, surpassing the\u00a01-million-pound\u00a0mark and providing critical support to Western New Yorkers facing food insecurity.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Fairgoers received free admission to the Erie County Fair in exchange for donating four or more canned goods at the gate on opening day. This year\u2019s collection of\u00a0160,905 pounds\u00a0represents\u00a0the\u00a0second-highest total in the history of the opening-day food drive\u00a0and pushed the longstanding partnership between the Erie County Fair and\u00a0FeedMore\u00a0WNY beyond the remarkable milestone of 1 million pounds donated.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“We are incredibly proud to celebrate this\u00a01-million-pound\u00a0milestone with\u00a0FeedMore\u00a0WNY,” said Jessica Underberg, Erie County Fair CEO and fair manager. “For more than a decade, fairgoers have embraced\u00a0the opening-day food drive as a way to help neighbors in need. Collecting more than 1 million pounds of food is a testament to the compassion and generosity that define our community.”\u00a0<\/p>\n
Tara A. Ellis, president and CEO of\u00a0FeedMore\u00a0WNY, said, \u201cFeedMore\u00a0WNY is excited and extremely moved by the incredible results of this year\u2019s Erie County Fair opening-day food drive. Once again, Erie County Fair-goers stepped up to support their food-insecure community members by generously filling 265 large totes full of food donations, which is six more totes than the previous year. What makes this amazing food drive even more special is that we were able to exceed a phenomenal milestone of more than\u00a01 million pounds\u00a0of food donated since this food drive began. FeedMore\u00a0WNY is deeply grateful for the continued partnership of the Erie County Fair and the Erie County Agricultural Society. We want to thank everyone who donated and volunteered to make this critical drive for\u00a0FeedMore\u00a0WNY and our\u00a0nearly 400\u00a0hunger-relief partner agencies so successful.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Erie County Fair opening-day food drive is supported by WGRZ-TV Channel 2, Five Star Bank, and NYCM Insurance.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Historical data on Erie County Fair opening-day food drive:<\/p>\n
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2025\u00a0<\/p>\n
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164,384\u00a0<\/p>\n
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2024\u00a0<\/p>\n
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153,124\u00a0<\/p>\n
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2023\u00a0<\/p>\n
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140,834\u00a0<\/p>\n
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2022<\/p>\n
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96,555\u00a0<\/p>\n
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2019\u00a0<\/p>\n
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52,968\u00a0<\/p>\n
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2018\u00a0<\/p>\n
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33,023\u00a0<\/p>\n
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2017\u00a0<\/p>\n
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38,058\u00a0<\/p>\n
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2016\u00a0<\/p>\n
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32,480\u00a0<\/p>\n
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2015\u00a0<\/p>\n
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36,995\u00a0<\/p>\n
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2014\u00a0<\/p>\n
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42,262\u00a0<\/p>\n
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2013\u00a0<\/p>\n
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85,273\u00a0<\/p>\n
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Total:\u00a0<\/p>\n
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1,036,861\u00a0<\/p>\n
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More about the Erie County Fair:\u00a0The Erie County Fair is produced by the Erie County Agricultural Society, a private, not-for-profit membership organization\u00a0established\u00a0in 1819. It is recognized as the oldest civic institution in Western New York. The society\u2019s mission is to connect communities through agriculture, education and entertainment.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Erie County Fair is an annual 12-day event held in Hamburg that celebrates the region\u2019s agricultural roots while offering engaging educational experiences and family-friendly entertainment. Learn more at\u00a0www.ECFair.org<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n More about\u00a0FeedMore\u00a0WNY: FeedMore\u00a0WNY offers dignity, hope and a brighter future by providing nutritious food,\u00a0friendship\u00a0and skills training to its Western New York neighbors in need. Through its food bank distribution center and partner hunger-relief agencies, as well as its home-delivered meal program, other targeted feeding\u00a0programs\u00a0and RISE workforce development training,\u00a0FeedMore\u00a0WNY alleviates hunger and\u00a0assists\u00a0community members of all ages throughout Cattaraugus, Chautauqua,\u00a0Erie\u00a0and Niagara counties. More information can be found at\u00a0www.FeedMoreWNY.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sat, Aug 15th 2026 08:00 am Erie County Fair press release The Erie County Fair is proud to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":154862,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[136,138,137],"class_list":["post-265890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265890","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=265890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265890\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/154862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}