CHARLOTTE, N.C., Nov. 30, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Piedmont
Natural Gas (NYSE: PNY) and Second Harvest Food Bank of Metrolina
are urging "Don't forget the pets" as they invite the community to
drop off food donations for Charlotte's neediest residents – and their
pets – during Piedmont's fifth
annual Community Food Drive Wednesday, Dec.
2.
Piedmont volunteers will
collect donations from 9 a.m. to 2
p.m. on the circle outside Piedmont's SouthPark headquarters at 4720
Piedmont Row Drive. Volunteers will unload cans, bags and boxes of
non-perishable food and pet food items during the drive-through
collection benefiting Second Harvest.
"Second Harvest is very excited about partnering with Piedmont
Natural Gas again for this year's Community Food Drive," said
Kay Carter, executive director of
Second Harvest Food Bank. "We know that one in six people in the
Charlotte region, including one in
four children, struggle with hunger, and only with community
participation in food drives like this can we meet the need."
"Sixty-five percent of American households have at least one
pet, and that tells us that many of Charlotte's neediest residents are also
challenged to keep their pets properly nourished," said
Timothy Greenhouse, managing
director of community relations for Piedmont Natural Gas.
"Piedmont and Second Harvest want
to feed the whole family this holiday season, and we need
Charlotte's help to achieve this
goal."
Wednesday's Community Food Drive is the centerpiece of
Piedmont's fifth annual Week of
Giving Nov. 30-Dec. 4. In addition,
employees at Piedmont's
Charlotte headquarters will host
events throughout the week to benefit several nonprofit
organizations, including YWCA of the Central Carolinas, Operation
North State, Alexander Youth Network and Hospitality House of
Charlotte.
Piedmont employees will also
participate in events in Anderson, South
Carolina, and Fayetteville,
New Bern and Wilmington, North Carolina, and they will be
part of the 62nd annual Piedmont Natural Gas Nashville Christmas
Parade in Tennessee. For more
information on Piedmont's Holiday
Week of Giving, please visit piedmontng.com.
About Piedmont Natural Gas
Piedmont Natural Gas is an energy services company primarily
engaged in the distribution of natural gas to more than one million
residential, commercial, industrial and power generation utility
customers in portions of North
Carolina, South Carolina
and Tennessee, including customers
served by municipalities who are wholesale customers. Our
subsidiaries are invested in joint venture, energy-related
businesses, including unregulated retail natural gas marketing, and
regulated interstate natural gas transportation and storage and
intrastate natural gas transportation businesses. More information
about Piedmont Natural Gas is available on the Internet
at http://www.piedmontng.com/.
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