About 480 members of local congregations of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints collected 9,260 pounds of food from a food drive on the National Day of Service and Remembrance Sept. 11. It was part of the faith’s inaugural Northwest Day of Service.

In the week prior to the event, members of six congregations in Bothell and Woodinville delivered about 6,000 fliers door to door on behalf of Hopelink, a local nonprofit agency serving those in need with food, housing and other aid. On Saturday, the families retraced their distribution routes, retrieved donations and delivered them to collection bins at five local grocery stores.

Another local congregation repackaged more than 7,000 pounds of pasta from bulk into 5,500 meals for Food LifeLine, a Western Washington local hunger relief organization.

Bothell’s and Woodinville’s Northwest Day of Service projects were part of a larger effort of many other congregations of The Church of Jesus Christ in Western Washington — from Centralia to the Canadian border. More than 259 congregations and at least 11,600 people completed 153 projects, such as blood drives, American Red Cross emergency response training, wetlands restoration, school yard clean up, park clean up and more. One group even worked to create a new park. Many projects involved serving active and retired military personnel.