Undergraduate Admissions

Gannon University students, faculty, and staff are hoping to collect 8,000 pounds of food when the University participates in the Collegiate Golden Harvest Food Drive, to be held Saturday, Nov. 7.

Gannon’s participants will work in two shifts: from approximately 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. and from 12 p.m. to 4 p.m. The first shift will gather for a breakfast at 8 a.m. in the Yehl Room of Gannon’s Waldron Campus Center, 124 West 7th St.

In total, about 300 students, faculty, and staff will go door-to-door collecting non-perishable food items in the City of Erie and in Millcreek Township. During last year’s drive, Gannon collected nearly 7,200 pounds of items.

All items collected will be donated to the Second Harvest Food Bank.

Gannon’s volunteers will target neighborhoods near Cherry Street Extension and the Frontier area. They also will cover the area roughly bounded by Liberty Street and Sterrettania Road between West 26th and West 38th streets.

In Millcreek, participants also will collect items near Asbury Road and the lakeshore.

In addition, drop zones will be set up at the Food Bank, 1507 Grimm Drive, and at the Waldron Campus Center.

This will be Gannon University’s 33rd year of participating in the Golden Harvest Food Drive.