Here’s how to help the hungry and homeless in November in Laguna Beach
The city of Laguna Beach, its Housing and Human Services Committee and multiple nonprofits will mark National Hunger and Homelessness Awareness Month in November with several ways residents can get involved to help the needy.
The Laguna Food Pantry is holding a food drive. People may drop off food at the U.S. Bank branch at 310 Glenneyre St., at participating churches and at any of Laguna Beach Unified’s four public schools and Anneliese Schools campuses.
On regular trash service days through Nov. 17, Laguna residents can place non-perishable items curbside in front of their houses. Food should be placed in bags marked “food donation.” Waste Management will pick up the food and deliver items to the pantry.
Needed items include cereal, pasta, pasta sauce, canned tuna, peanut butter, jelly, rice and beans, and packaged macaroni and cheese.
Food-drive donors are encouraged to post photos of themselves with donations on social media using hashtags #LagunaFoodDrive, #LagunaFoodPantry and #LagunaBeachCares.
Donors may also deliver food to the pantry at 20652 Laguna Canyon Road from 8 to 10:30 a.m. Mondays through Fridays, or make a monetary donation.
There are more than 315,000 people, including one in five children, at risk of hunger each month in Orange County, according to the Second Harvest Food Bank of Orange County.
Most of the hungry are the working poor or seniors on fixed incomes who cannot make ends meet, the food bank’s website said.
Unused toiletries may also be dropped off at various locations to support the Alternative Sleeping Location, the city’s emergency overnight shelter in Laguna Canyon.
At noon on Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 23, the Friendship Shelter will hold its community potluck at the Neighborhood Congregational Church at 340 St. Ann’s Drive. Please bring prepared turkeys and side dishes to the church at 11 a.m.
For more information on events throughout the month, visit lagunahungryandhomeless.org.
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