Today, Saturday, May 12, 2012, the National Association of Letter Carriers will pick up canned and dried foods for Stamp Out Hunger across America. Now in its 20th year, the Stamp Out Hunger effort is the nation’s largest single-day food drive.

In recent years, a record-setting total of 77 million pounds of food was donated, bringing the grand total of donations to more than one billion pounds collected over the history of the drive.

To help Stamp Out Hunger, simply leave a sturdy bag containing non-perishable food items next to your mailbox before regular mail delivery today, Saturday, May 12th. The nation’s 230,000 letter carriers will then collect the donations as they deliver the mail and take them to food banks and other hunger relief organizations in more than 10,000 local communities.

Plain and simple: Girl Scouts of Central California South Troops rocked their cookie sale this year!

“Our goal was one million boxes for our 100th Anniversary year, and our girls were very close to reaching that goal. They sold more than 987,000 boxes! We could not be more proud,” CEO Cathy Ferguson stated happily.

For six weeks, the girls were out in force, rain or shine.

The dedication paid off.

More than 80 Girl Scouts achieved their goal of selling 1,000+ boxes of cookies, and they are now part of the Super Sellers Secret Society Honors (S.S.S.S.H) club.

For the third year in a row, Kelsie Anne from Troop 638 in Porterville was the top cookie seller.

She sold a whopping 3,504 boxes!

Other top cookie sellers in the local Girl Scout council during the 2012 Cookie Sale were:

The I Bike Fresno 2012 Campaign kicks off its 3rd Annual Million Mile Challenge on this Sunday, April 29th ahead of  National Bike Month which begins this Tuesday, May first.

The Million Mile Challenge encourages people that work, play and live in Fresno County to work together to log miles in an effort to ride a collective one million miles, while reminding them that riding a bike is not just good for personal health and the environment, but it is also fun. 

“Bicycles are something that have really been relegated to just a recreational item. People don’t realize that bikes can be a great tool for transportation,” said Byron Watkins, President of the Bike Happy Foundation. “We hope through efforts like the Million Mile Challenge and our other bike month events, we can start to change peoples’ behaviors and show them that bicycles aren’t just for kids. We want people to fall in love with their bicycles again.”