St. Cloud Metro Bus teamed up with Townsquare Media and Royal Tire to collect more than 2,500 pounds and over $1,500 for local food shelves during its fourth annual “Fill the Flyer” food drive. The cash portion will be matched by a local grant from the Skalicky Foundation.
The stuff-the-bus style food drive is mobile, each day moving to a different grocery store for three hours. The drive is named for New Flyer, who manufactured the current Metro Bus fleet. Because of the New Flyer plant in St. Cloud, the name is known in the community.
Metro Bus also hosts a one-day “Fill the Flyer” food drive in the summer at Summertime by George, a local music festival. Since 2011, Metro Bus has collected nearly 20,000 pounds and over $7,400 during the summer and winter food drives.
