Howell students covered a football field with food for New Jersey banks
In Dermer Dreams' second 100-Yard Food Drive Challenge, students and neighbors collected more than 250,000 pounds of food. Yellow bags filled Howell High School's field for about 30 food-bank partners.
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Students and communities in Dermer Dreams' second 100-Yard Food Drive Challenge collected more than 250,000 pounds of food, Good News Network reported. Yellow bags covered the football field at Howell High School.
The groceries are bound for about 30 food-bank partners. The weight is this year's challenge total, and the field was the place they stacked it so the scale of the drive was visible.
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Students and neighbors in Howell, New Jersey, collected more than 250,000 pounds of food for the second 100-Yard Food Drive Challenge, run by Dermer Dreams. They covered the football field at Howell High School with yellow bags of groceries. The food is headed to about 30 food-bank partners around New Jersey. A food bank stores donations and sends them to pantries that families use. The 250,000 pounds is what this challenge gathered, and the field of bags is how the students showed the size of the pile.
- Why lay the food out on a football field instead of hiding it in a truck?
- What is a food bank, and how is it different from a grocery store?
- How could a school challenge get more food than one classroom could carry?
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