Events
Kids CAN Hunger Food Drive
September 1 – October 31, 2011
God’s Pantry Food Bank has been doing a student food drive in Fayette County for the past 17 years. In 2011, the Food Bank decided to change things up! Instead of holding two separate food drives for the public and private schools in town, they combined all public and private elementary and middle schools into one monster fall food drive. All area high schools were moved to a spring food drive, the Fayette Food Frenzy.
Students bring in canned food donations during a set time period. The drive runs through September and October but each school can choose how long its collection period will last. At the end of the drive, final results are determined and each school will be ranked based on the number of pounds of food donated per student. This is based on enrollment figures provided at the start of the food drive by each school’s coordinator.
The food drive has been generously sponsored by Toyota Motor Manufacturing Kentucky. The grand prize for the winning school is $1,000!
The 2011 Winners were:
Grand prize – Veterans Park Elementary School
8,455 pounds – 12.8 pounds per student
2nd Place – Cassidy Elementary School
7,988 pounds – (12.6 pounds per student)
3rd Place – Sayre Lower School
2,491 pounds – 12.0 pounds per student
4th Place – Mary Queen of the Holy Rosary
3,652 pounds – 9.1 pounds per student
1st Place Middle School – Jessie Clark Middle School
5,672 pounds – 6.6 pounds per student
2nd Place Middle School – Beaumont Middle School
5,207 pounds – 4.9 pound per student
Doubled It Awards – presented to schools who doubled their pounds contributed from the previous year
Doubled It PLUS – Edythe J. Hayes Middle School
3,758 pounds. 2,270 pounds more than last year
Tates Creek Middle School
1,814 pounds – 1,061 more pounds than last year
William Wells Brown Elementary School
1,093 pounds. 550 pounds more than last year