2017 Bellya Summer In Review: The Amazing Final Food Drive Count!

The Bellevue community donated an incredible 2,526 items to our food drive for the local pantry! 

Pantries especially need resources during the summer months and so the library collected nonperishable food items and hygiene products throughout June and July to bolster their supplies.

To encourage participation, we tied the food drive into our very relevant Summer Library Program theme: Build A Better World! Adults, teens, and kids could all earn incentives by bringing canned or boxed goods to our table station, where a running count display was kept (50 items = another heart grocery bag on the chart). We provided a food drive handout, so you could take a shopping list of the pantry's most needed items to the store!

Shopping list: what the pantry needed most!

Kids Cruisin' Kitchen also came to further our anti-hunger efforts! Sponsored by the Omaha Salvation Army, Food Bank for the Heartland, and Hunger Free Heartland, this program delivers hot, nutritious meals free of charge. People 19 years of age or younger and their families were eligible to visit the food truck starting late May. And it's still ongoing now, 12:00-12:45 PM, through Wednesday, August 9th! 🍲

Thank you for helping us exceed our goal of 2500 items by July 22nd! ❤

You can continue donating to the Bellevue Pantry at 1908 Hancock Street. Call them at 402-292-2961 to check their service hours and check their web site for the most current list of "Needed Now" items.

We collected 741 items in just the first week!

posted on 8/01/2017 05:52:00 PM

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Free lunch at your library!

Sponsored by the Omaha Salvation Army, Food Bank for The Heartland, and Hunger Free Heartland, Kids Cruisin' Kitchen delivers hot, nutritious meals--FREE of charge.
Children 19 years of age and under AND their families are eligible for meals.

Have lunch at your library this summer!

◄Meals are served Monday - Friday, May 31st through August 5th.

◄Meals are served from 12:00 PM - 12:30 PM.

◄All food must be consumed at the library. (We have picnic tables in the shade, but feel free to bring a sheet to lay over our lawn!)

◄No take-home meals are allowed and children will be served before adults.

◄No I.D. or any kind of paperwork is required; the meals are FREE!

◄ No meals served on July 4th. 

✪ See the Children's "On Your Mark, Get Set, Read!" Summer Reading Program brochure for Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday activities that coincide with this time. ✪

posted on 6/08/2016 05:26:00 PM

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Kids Cruisin' Kitchen: Have Lunch at the Library!

 Sponsored by the Omaha Salvation Army, Food Bank for The Heartland, and Hunger Free Heartland, Kids Cruisin' Kitchen delivers hot, nutritious meals--FREE of charge--to your Bellevue Public Library. Children 18 years of age and under & their families are eligible for meals.

Have lunch at your library this summer!

◄Meals are served Monday - Friday, June 1st through August 7th.

◄Meals are served from 12:30 PM - 1:00 PM.

◄All food must be consumed at the library. (We have picnic tables in the shade, but feel free to bring a sheet to lay over our lawn!)

◄No take-home meals are allowed and children will be served before adults.

◄No I.D. or any kind of paperwork is required; the meals are FREE!

✪ Our Children's Librarian, Alice Boeckman, and her assistant, Michelle Bullock, will join you for lunch and a story as time permits! ✪

(Notice: No meals will be served on July 3rd, 2015.)

posted on 6/09/2015 09:37:00 PM

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