Proclamation 5740 --
National Food Bank Week, 1987
By
the President of the
A
Proclamation
This
harvest season, as Thanksgiving approaches, we are grateful that our country is
rich in caring citizens who establish and maintain food banks to serve people
in time of need. These devoted Americans daily offer their talents and material
resources to help their neighbors.
Individuals,
the food industry, other businesses, churches, government agencies, schools,
and other groups combine to make food banks work. Social service agencies often
refer clients to food banks pending the processing of the clients' benefit
applications; this ensures that families' temporary needs are met while
long-term assistance is being arranged. The food industry donates surplus food
to regional food banks that help supply local pantries and private local food
programs. Private businesses provide support services ranging from
transportation and cold storage to accounting and legal help.
Our
Nation's food banks and those who staff them truly deserve the thanks and the
cooperation of all Americans.
In
recognition of food banks and of the many Americans who help organize and
operate them, the Congress, by House Joint Resolution 368, has designated the
week of November 8 through November 14, 1987, as ``National Food Bank Week''
and authorized and requested the President to issue a proclamation in
observance of this event.
Now,
Therefore, I, Ronald Reagan, President of the
In
Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand this tenth day of November, in the
year of our Lord nineteen hundred and eighty-seven, and of the
Ronald
Reagan
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