By: Virginia Ely
(Eureka FFA Reporter)
Giving is the transfer of something without the expectation of receiving something in return. The Eureka FFA is teaming up with the Eureka Food Pantry to help families this holiday season. From collecting cans around town to bringing in pickup truck loads of food to the food pantry, the FFA is up and running again with the Tons of Fun Food Drive!
Congerville, Goodfield, and Davenport grade schools along with the middle school and high school are all in competition to see who can collect the most food. Every Friday the FFA officers and Ag classes collect, weigh, and record the pounds each class collects. It is then sorted and loaded in pickup trucks to take to the Eureka Food pantry. This past Friday alone the FFA took three full truck loads to the pantry. The Food pantry alone feeds over 100 families from the surrounding area. They have eleven surrounding churches that help donate, but every three months they get helpers together and go to the grocery stores and spend thousands of dollars just to help these families. In addition to the competition between the classes members of the FFA walked around town on Thursday, going door-to-door collecting even more donations! With what the FFA received Thursday and Friday there are only good things to come in the following weeks!
It is a blessing to have helping hands collect, sort, and deliver the food. The FFA would like to thank all who donated by either sending food with their kids, or by giving to those who surprisingly knocked on your door Thursday night! It’s a blessing to have such giving people at this time of year working together for the bigger cause.
