Dorney Park food truck drive collects 12,368 lbs

Dorney Park’s 10th annual Food Truck Food Drive brought in 12,368 pounds of food on Saturday, beating its 10,000-pound goal. (wfmz.com) WFMZ-TV 69 News, Dorney Park and GIANT staged the event from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the South Whitehall Township amusement park. Visitors were asked to bring nonperishable food, which served as admission to the food truck area. (wfmz.com 1) (wfmz.com 2) The drive was billed as a 10-year milestone, with organizers tying the anniversary to a 10,000-pound collection target. By the end of Saturday, the total had cleared that mark by 2,368 pounds. (wfmz.com) All food donations went to Second Harvest Food Bank of the Lehigh Valley and Northeast Pennsylvania, a program of Community Action Lehigh Valley. The food bank says spring and summer can be harder months for donations than the holiday season. (wfmz.com) (communityactionlv.org) Second Harvest says it serves Carbon, Lehigh, Monroe, Northampton, Pike and Wayne counties. The organization says it distributed nearly 10 million pounds of food last year through a network of more than 200 nonprofit partners. (communityactionlv.org) WFMZ said it followed a donated can from drop-off to distribution ahead of the event, underscoring how the drive feeds directly into Second Harvest’s regional system. That system includes pantries, meal centers, shelters, schools and senior living centers. (wfmz.com) (communityactionlv.org) The event also doubled as a public kickoff around Dorney Park, which markets itself as an Allentown amusement park with more than 60 rides and a major water park. The food drive used that foot traffic to turn a seasonal attraction into a one-day collection site. (dorneypark.com) (wfmz.com) For Second Harvest, the result was straightforward: one three-hour Saturday event delivered more than 12,000 pounds of food into a six-county hunger relief network. (communityactionlv.org) (wfmz.com)