Saturday, July 19, 2014
World-record-setting Food Drive (1 p.m. Sunday July 21 - 24 hours to 1 p.m. Monday) - goal is 560,000 pounds
The Elkhart County 4-H Fair Food Drive Committee will be attempting a “Guinness Book of World Records” for largest single-day food drive. The world-record attempt will happen during the Fair Sunday, July 20, 2014 at 1:00 p.m. – Monday, July 21, 2014 at 1:00 p.m. The donation drop-off point will be near Gate 2 (the pick-up / drop off area). If everybody who comes to the Fair can donate generously, our community can break the existing record. The current record for the largest food drive by a non-charitable organization in 24 hours was set by the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics Food Drive, which collected 559,885 pounds of food in Durham, N.C., on March 5, 2011. All donations will benefit the Food Bank of Elkhart County, a program of Church Community Services that provides food for hungry families by supplying food to many local food pantries and hot meal sites. The Fair is also looking for help from other local organizations. Any individual or organization who would like to get involved with the Food Drive and world-record attempt for largest food drive, please contact Shelly Steury by email at shellysteury@msn.com.
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Did they make more than 560,000 pounds in 24-hour period? -- Here's the "ELKHART TRUTH" story:
A 24-hour food drive means someone’s got to stay awake for 24 hours straight.
Shelly Steury, co-organizer of the Elkhart County 4-H Fair’s food drive, led a team of tireless night owls Sunday, July 20, into Monday morning as they attempted to bring the most nonperishable food into the fairgrounds in 24 hours.
The goal was to collect more than 560,000 pounds of food, breaking the Guinness World Record that was set by the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics food drive in 2011.
At 1 p.m. Monday, July 21, the exhausted crew calculated they had 46,692 pounds.
An estimated 17,000 pounds of food came in during the last hour alone.
"There’s over $100,000 worth of food here, easily," food drive co-organizer Shelly Steury said Monday afternoon near where pallets of food were being loaded into trucks. "And when you look at it that way, this was a huge success. It wasn't Guinness, but it was a huge success."
She had the job of running to Martin’s Super Markets on Monday morning to convert cash donations into food.
http://www.flavor574.com/Eat/News/2014/07/21/Elkhart-County-4-H-Fair-saw-more-participation-in-food-drive-this-year.html
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