Allstate Insurance Agent Gary McNealis is currently collecting items to support the Valor Clinic Foundation's Hope for the Homeless program.

The company, located at 220 Claremont Ave., Hometown, is now accepting donations of canned fruit and vegetables with pop-top lids, meal bars, tuna, jerky, V8 Splash, soup meals, Dinty Moore stews, toothbrushes and toothpaste, wash clothes, women's hygiene items, gift cards and monetary donations.The items will be presented to the foundation in Hazleton between 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. on Sept. 17.