The shelves at the pantry at Lehigh Community Services got a HUGE gift of food.
Kim Conrad with Mirror Lakes Elementary School said some 140 students there collected nearly 7000 cans of food and several other boxes of different types of foods.
All totaled, the food weighs almost 6,500 pounds. The Kiwanis Club provided a truck and delivery men to pick up the food last week to deliver to Lehigh Community Services.
“Rae Nicely, the executive director of LCS had told me a few weeks back that the pantry shelves were running a little low because of the great demand for food by the less fortunate. So we at the school decided to do a quick food drive and our students outdid themselves,” Conrad said.
“Next to the annual collection by the U.S. Postal Service, it is one of the largest gifts of food we have had,” Nicely said. “And I am so appreciative of the students at the school and Kim Conrad who oversaw the food drive,” Rae Nicely said.
Conrad said students worked the entire month of October and the food was all collected and even divided up into categories. Students asked friends and neighbors and their parents to donate to the food drive.
Conrad said the students that helped to oversee the project were what are called “K Kids” who are part of a program supported by the Lehigh Kiwanis Club, which operates a large thrift store and gives to the community its proceeds.
Conrad said the students that collected the food and their teachers were treated to a big pizza party last Thursday.