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Food for Thought includes new activities

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photo by Meghan Lewis
story by Lindsey Valdiviez, photos by Meghan Lewis

This school year, community service club moderator Kate Absher added new activities to the annual Food for Thought Drive. In previous years, theology teacher Betsy Hansbrough moderated community service club and the Food for Thought. Two new activities were added to the annual Food for Thought event under Absher’s guidance: The Hunger Games at STA: Trivia Challenge (teams of girls signed up and were required to bring in boxes of pasta) and the Peanut Butter Jelly Drive.

Approximately 500 jars of peanut butter and jelly were collected. Though Absher is uncertain of the total number of canned goods, she says there were roughly 200 grocery sacs filled with cans. 204 boxes of pasta were collected from 17 teams of girls at the Hunger Games Trivia Night.

“I figured the trivia night would be fun because I like those types of things,” Absher said. “The peanut butter drive I thought it would be fun if you guys would compete against each other. I was trying to feel it out because we’re gonna do a big week in January.”

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According to Absher, she decided to augment the event to encourage more students to partake in the activities.

“I just thought it would be cool to get more involvement from the students because even though we’re going out and asking people for food, I thought it would be fun if we could have it be a little bit more like we would be bringing stuff in too as opposed to just asking outside community members,” Absher said.

Under Hansbrough’s guidance, Food for Thought only featured the trick-or-treating for canned goods.

“She just totally redid the whole thing and it’s great,” Hansbrough said. “The two events aren’t even comparable now.”

According to Kansas City infoZine, Sunland Inc peanut butter plant recalled over 240 products manufactured in their factory after Mar. 1 2010 on Oct. 6. Despite the recall, Absher believes it did not affect the amount of peanut butter brought in.

“There’s so many different brands that we’re donating that [the company we donate to] is just going to have to search it themselves,” Absher said. “There were lots of jellies given.”

Absher is content with the success of this years Food for Thought event. According to Absher, the activities were not only charitable, but enjoyable for those that participated.

“It was really fun, I love organizing things, I’m such a dweeb like that,” Absher said. “I was really excited to work with everybody as opposed to me sitting here thinking about things.”

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