05/17/2022
On Tuesday, May 17, 2022, members of the Rural Hall Area Business Association met to conclude our annual food drive for 2nd Harvest Food Bank of Northwest North Carolina. We bought in about 180 lbs of non-perishable food items and collected $1,673 for the food bank. Joe Kilar, with the food bank, reported that they are currently in a matching campaign so this will be doubled and every dollar can create up to 7 meals. This is possible because much of their food is donated, so these funds are used to provided shipment from the donor company to the food bank, which in turn has to distribute it to multiple outlets where families can access good healthy food in their local areas. So not counting the actual food items donated, the RHABA food drive for 2022 equates to 23,422 meals!!! Our membership certificates state that RHABA consists of "businesses working together for a better community"! Today was one of the many examples that we can cite where our business members, on a regular basis, sacrifice for others benefit!