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Breeze Botanicals, a marijuana retail outlet with stores in Ashland and Gold Hill, is collecting food to boost the ACCESS Help Feed Southern Oregon Families Food Drive to help make a difference for families struggling this holiday season. “We chose the Access-Help Feed Southern Oregon Families Food Drive because it touches so many different organizations throughout Southern Oregon and can have a very real impact on families. I am so proud to be part of an organization that cares so much about the communities we live and work in,” Eli Elliott, manager at Breeze Botanicals in Gold Hill, said in a release about the drive. For every dollar a customer donates, they receive one loyalty point. Customers may also bring in canned goods or other non-perishable food items and receive one point for every two items. The food drive continues through the end of December. ACCESS Nutrition Programs distributes food collected through food drives to a network of hunger-relief agencies such as Salvation Army, St. Vincent de Paul and 7th Day Adventist Food Pantries. The agencies include pantries that distribute emergency food boxes, soup kitchens, shelters and other helping agencies. An emergency food box provides a three-to-five-day supply of food for a family. In 2015, 33 percent of those eating from emergency food boxes were children under the age of 18. Most wanted foods ACCESS Nutrition Programs needs include canned meats (tuna, chicken, salmon); canned and boxed meals (soup, chili, stew, macaroni and cheese); peanut butter; canned or dried beans and peas (black, pinto, lentils); pasta, rice, cereal; canned fruits; 100 percent fruit juice (canned, plastic or boxed). To ensure food safety, ACCESS cannot use rusty or unlabeled cans, perishable items, homemade items, noncommercial canned or packaged items, alcoholic beverages, mixes or soda, open or used items. The Breeze Botanicals Ashland store is at 1526 Siskiyou Blvd. For more information, go to www.breezebotanicals.com .