CAN-Trees Feed The Hungry In Ventura County
Ventura County residents will be decorating a new kind of Christmas tree this year. The FOOD Share’s 3rd annual CAN-tree collection food drive kicks off Friday.
As a huge effort to boost donations during the food bank’s most critical time of the year, business and community leaders will be rolling up their sleeves to build CAN-trees – holiday trees each made with 600-800 cans of food.
More than 165,000 canned goods are expected to be on display at The Collection at Riverpark in Oxnard, where the plaza will be lined with more than 220 CAN-trees.
The centerpiece, a 15-foot CAN-tree made with 10,000 canned goods donated by Ventura County Credit Union, will be built by the students of ACE Charter High School.
The building will continue until Sunday, Dec. 7. Following the event, the trees will be broken down and the 165,000 cans will be used to feed the hungry.
