Josh and his buddy Erik were chairmen of the North Reading High School Student Council food drive held this October to benefit the North Reading Food Pantry.
They had a number of programs going on within the school including a contest where homerooms earned points for various food items and competed for a pizza lunch.
They spent one Saturday in front of the local supermarket handing out shopping lists of most needed items and asking shoppers to help “Fill the Cart” for the food pantry. This proved so successful that we had to quit when our vehicles filled up!
All the food was brought back to our garage where the guys counted and sorted it. With the help of a neighbor’s truck, we then delivered it all directly to the food pantry and helped to sort and store it!
A couple of other loads of food came directly from the school and, in the end, they collected nearly 5,000 food items! Here’s the story from our local newspaper!
Way to go guys!
