A program that offers additional resources to veterans and families has made its way to Carbon County.

Henry Desrosiers, president of the Carbon County Veterans Council, said the council is presently working with Second Harvest Food Bank on the MilitaryShare Program.

“This program offers our veterans and families to receive additional resources from Second Harvest as well as what they receive from the local food pantries,” Desrosiers said. “Second Harvest and their liaison Nicole Folino, as well as the Veterans Council, would like to let our veterans and their families know that we are there for them.”

Desrosiers said they have scheduled another registration from noon to 2 p.m. Oct. 12 at the Lehighton American Legion Post 314.

He said the goal is to register as many veterans and families as possible, and noted that registration will be done without obtaining any personal information.

Desrosiers said once they get a head count, they will get a delivery on the fourth Wednesday of the Month, and on the fourth Saturday of the month. Food will be dispensed through the Lehighton American Legion.

“If we get registered 25 people on the (Oct.) 12, I would contact Nicole,” he said. “We should get that delivery to us on the (Oct.) 22nd, and the (Oct.) 25 would be the day we would hand them out.”

Folino, who serves as agency relations coordinator for Second Harvest Food Bank, said it’s a program of Second Harvest Food Bank.

She said Carbon would be the 60th county it would serve, joining Monroe, Northampton, Lehigh, Pike and Wayne counties.

“Carbon which we know has a high population of veterans and veterans families, to be able to reach them and meets their needs, we’re happy to do it,” Folino said. “It’s a supplemental food program that is for only military families, and supplements anything they might already be eligible to be received at a pantry.”

Essentially, Folino said the program is geared to make sure that veterans have access to additional fresh/healthy food to feed their families.”

She said that includes a box of nonperishable items, along with dairy and fresh fruits and vegetables.

Desrosiers said the Carbon County Veterans Council consists of the American Legion, Veterans of Foreign Affairs, American Veterans, Marine Corps League, Navy Club of the USA and Vietnam Veterans of Carbon County.

“If you’re a veteran, or a surviving spouse of a veteran, come in, register and we would be more than glad and willing to assist them and get that extra food into the household,” he said.