For the fourth year, volunteers will be standing outside several grocers for the Price Ford Peanut Butter Drive.

The dealership partners with the Port Angeles and Sequim food banks to bring in jars of peanut butter for local youths over the summer.

Andra Smith, executive director of the Sequim Food Bank, said the Sequim facility provides an average of 250 jars of peanut butter a week all year long and it’s a good source of protein for youths.

At last year’s event, Sequim donors gave 2,300 jars of peanut butter and organizers set a goal of 2,700 jars from Sequim donations, said Stephen Rosales, Sequim Food Bank board president.

Jessica Hernandez, executive director of the Port Angeles Food Bank, said they’ve set a goal for 3,000 jars.

Sequim volunteers take donations from 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday-Sunday, June 17-18, at Grocery Outlet, 1045 W. Washington St., QFC, 990 E. Washington St., Safeway, 680F W. Washington St., and Walmart, 1284 W. Washington St. (Friday-Sunday).

Port Angeles donation sites include Port Angeles Walmart, 3411 E. Kolonels Way, from 11-4 p.m. Friday-Sunday, and Country Aire Market, 200 W. First St., from 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Friday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday, and 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Sunday.

Volunteers for the event in Sequim include Sound Community Bank, Wells Fargo, Sequim Sunrise Rotary and Sequim Noon Rotary, Sequim Seventh-day Adventist and Sequim Food Bank volunteers.

For more information, call the Sequim Food Bank, 144 W. Alder St., Sequim, at 683-1205 or 461-6038, or the Port Angeles Food Bank, 402 S. Valley St., Port Angeles, at 452-8568.

Organizers of the Price Ford Peanut Butter Drive this weekend look to gather enough jars of peanut butter to provide a staple protein to youths in Port Angeles and Sequim through the summer. Sequim Gazette photo by Matthew Nash