Food drive nets 19 tons

Palouse Cares food drive collected more than 38,000 pounds of food for area food banks Saturday. The event also included live and silent auctions that raised $25,000 dollars for local non-profit organizations and food banks.

Event director Jonathon Carson said more than 1,100 volunteers in four locations on the Palouse made the single day food drive possible.

Food drives took place at the Eastside Marketplace in Moscow, Zeppoz in Pullman, Rosauers in Colfax and Harvest Foods in Potlatch.