Holiday food drive brings in 60,291 pounds of food

Natchitoches Parish collected 2,921

The results of the 2024 KALB-TV Christmas Cheer Food Drive are complete, and 60,291 pounds of nonperishable food items were collected from Avoyelles, Grant, Natchitoches, Rapides and Vernon parish schools, according to Jayne Wright-Velez, executive director of the Food Bank of Central Louisiana. Sponsored by the Tunica-Biloxi Tribe of Louisiana, Paragon Casino Resort and KALB-TV, local schools ...

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