This weekend is for fish fans.
Whether you like fishing or want to give to the FISH Food Pantry, the weekend has you covered.
White plastic grocery bags were left in residents’ mailboxes on Tuesday and Wednesday and postal carriers will be collecting them — ideally stuffed with nonperishable food items — tomorrow for the 24th annual National Association of Letter Carriers’ Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive.
Longtime postal carrier Toni Ball tells Galesburg’s Morning News on WGIL several truck drivers will be picking up bags left outside homes and taking them to the FISH Food Pantry.
“Put your bags out as early as you can,” she says. “If you have a mailbox that really can’t be seen from the street, set it where we can see it from the street.”
On Sunday starting at 1 p.m., the 29th annual Youth Fishing Derby will be at the Lincoln Park lagoon.
Coordinator Al Hayden says the derby gives kids something to do.
“If you can get a kid fishing on there, he’s not going to be in trouble out on the street doing some other stuff,” he says. “You can’t get in a whole lot of trouble if you’re out there catching fish.”
The Fishing Derby is free and open to the public. Registration is at noon. Participants from ages three to 15 are asked to bring their own bait and pole.
Until prizes run out, each kid who catches a fish wins prize.
Hayden says the event runs to 3 p.m., depending on how fish are biting.
