Cheyenne's Great Green Bean Bowl feeds 550 Thanksgiving tables
A canned-food contest between Cheyenne high schools, the Great Green Bean Bowl, collected enough food for Thanksgiving meals for 550 families.
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Cheyenne high schools turned a rivalry into Thanksgiving groceries, Wyoming News Now reported. The Great Green Bean Bowl, a canned-food contest, collected enough to feed 550 families.
That figure is the meals the drive can cover. It is one competition in the capital city, not a measure of every household that will need help in November.
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High schools in Cheyenne, Wyoming, compete in the Great Green Bean Bowl. It is a contest to collect canned food, not a sports game, even though it has a bowl in the name. This year the cans add up to Thanksgiving meals for 550 families. A family meal means a household can cook a holiday dinner from what was collected. Five hundred fifty is the number of families the drive can feed, not the number of students who brought a can. The schools turned a rivalry into groceries.
- Why would a school contest collect food instead of points?
- What belongs in a bag if the goal is a Thanksgiving dinner?
- How could your class help a food drive without buying something new?
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