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Health & Fitness

Helping Others While at the Rice County Fair

The great Rice County get together begins tonight. The Rice County DFL will launch their 2nd annual food drive at the fair this evening.

Every year I enjoy volunteering at the Rice County Democratic Farmer Labor Party's fair booth. It's great to see and chat with friends and neighbors.

This year at the fair we'll continue a tradition that we started last year - a food drive.  There continues to be a need for food shelves and the service they provide to our communities here in Rice County. In a perfect world it would be great not to need food shelves, but it's not a perfect world - however there are many wonderful people who work each week to ensure that those who need help receive it. We are proud to be able to support their efforts with this food drive at the Rice County Fair.

We launched the food drive last night at the fair. The food drive will run through Sunday, July 22nd, 2012 during the Rice County Fair. You can drop off new non-perishable food items and/or baby products (i.e.: diapers, baby wipes, other hygienic items, etc.) at the DFL’s fair booth. All items collected will be delievered to food shelves within Rice County.

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The DFL's booth is located in the commercial exhibit building next to the Sellner Memorial stage, right across from the 4-H food building. 

Please join us in supporting our local food shelves.

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