Cady Stribling
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Need Line is hosting its third annual Dairy Box Give-A-Way on Friday, Sept. 11, and University students are more than welcome to join the Murray and Calloway County community and pick up a free dairy box.
Dottie Sager, Need Line caseworker, said the nonprofit is coordinating with Prairie Farms, who are providing the dairy products, to make the giveaway happen.
Sager said the dairy boxes are a thank you to the community.
“Prairie Farms and Need Line and the City Park wanted to show support for the community and how well it has pulled together,” Sager said. “Calloway County has really pulled together, trying to make sure everyone stays in their homes and has food to eat. Everyone has done their part. We have a wonderful community.”
The giveaway will be held in the parking lot of Central Park off of Arcadia Drive. As people enter the park, volunteers will direct cars to the back of the park to wait in a line that will trickle toward the front of the park.
Sager said the line moves quickly, and people shouldn’t be waiting for more than 15 minutes.
The Dairy Box Give-A-Way will be held from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. or until the boxes are gone. Although the Give-A-Way is first come first serve, Sager said they will have 1,200 boxes for the community to collect.
Each box contains two gallons of milk, two pints of chocolate milk, two pints of strawberry milk, one sour cream, one cream cheese, one cottage cheese and one french onion dip.
Need Line is giving one box per family, but Sager said if people drive together and live separately, they can still collect a box for their household.
“Murray State has been wonderful to us,” Sager said. “I’ve been here for 40 years now and Murray State has been a part of us from the beginning, helping out and sending volunteers over. A lot of professors would have students come over and volunteer for extra credit, so we got to meet a lot of students that way. Of course with COVID-19, it’s a little different, but Murray State’s been wonderful.”