LOGAN – It’s been a good spring for the Cache Community Food Pantry. They have had two profitable food drives and monetary donations that have helped fill their food bins and keep them going for a while.
Letter Carriers drop of collected food to the Cache Food Pantry on May 10, 2024.
“We collected about 82,000 pounds of food and the money donations were up from last year, for the Feed Utah Food Drive,” said Jake Netzley, assistant director of the facility. “We especially want to thank our sponsors Lee’s and Macey’s grocery stores and for letting us use them for drop off locations.”
They wanted to thank all those involved in the Feed Utah Food Drive, even the businesses that were drop-off locations: Macey’s in Providence, Lee’s in Logan, Lee’s in Smithfield, and Lee’s in Richmond.
“The numbers of families coming to the pantry for help is leveling out,” Netzley said. “We are starting to see things stabilize a little but there is still plenty of need.”
Matt Whitaker, the executive director of the food pantry, said he estimated 35,000 pounds of food came in last Saturday from the Stamp Out Hunger Letter Carriers Food Drive.
The Food Pantry also received over $12,000 in donations from local financial institutions in recent months.
The Letter Carriers Stamp Out Food Drive helped fill bins at Cache Food Pantry on Monday May 12, 2025.
“We appreciate everyone’s generous donations. These donations go a long way to help the people that depend on us for food,” Whitaker said. “We are especially grateful to the letter carriers last weekend for the extra work they did on an already busy day.”
The pantry serves nearly 1,000 people a month and another 25 organizations that depend on them for food. Organizations like CAPSA, the Senior Center, Cache Employment and Training Center, as well as Franklin and Rich counties’ food pantries. One of their biggest draws is Utah State University’s Student Nutrition Access Center.
The pantry uses all donations to serve people in the community. Those contributions are the most important part of helping those families that need it.
On Monday afternoon, Elder Jake Knight, a service missionary for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, spent hours opening boxes of food from Saturday’s food drive and dumping them into bins. The bins were stacked to the ceiling full of food.
Other volunteers were also going through boxes of food and putting them in appropriate bins.
Each bag of food collected from the Letter Carriers Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive helped fill bins used for people who need food on Monday May 12, 2025.
People don’t need to wait for a food drive to donate food. There are donation bins on the east side of the Cache Community Food Pantry located at 359 South Main St. where people can drop off food. All donations are accepted.
Donated food should be commercially packaged (non-glass), non-perishable and nutritious (ideally low-sodium and low-sugar items). Most-needed food items include beef stew, chili, peanut butter, boxed meals, canned meats and canned fruits and vegetables.