LHSD holds food drive for Hunters Feeding the Hungry
PEARCY — The Lake Hamilton School District will enter the second half of its two-week food drive Monday ahead of Thursday’s visit from the Arkansas Hunters Feeding the Hungry Truck.
The district is holding the annual food drive for the Food for Kids backpack program and the food pantry at the Lake Hamilton Parent Center. It began last Monday and continues through Thursday’s football game against Little Rock Hall.
“The annual food drive and our partnership with Hunters Feeding the Hungry make it possible for us to help families in need throughout the school year,” said Renae Carrouth, Family and Community Coordinator for Lake Hamilton. “We could not do this without the support of caring people in our community.”
Lake Hamilton students and teachers were asked to collect certain items based on their grade, but all donations are accepted.
Kindergarten students at the primary school are asked to donate jelly. First-grade students are asked to provide peanut butter.
The requested item for second-graders at the elementary school is cereal. The third-grade item is instant oatmeal.
Intermediate school students in the fourth grade are asked to bring individual ravioli and SpaghettiOs. Fifth-graders can bring snack bars of all types, such as granola, breakfast and protein bars.
Vienna sausage and Beanee Weenees are requested of the middle school’s sixth-graders. Saltine crackers are the requested item for seventh-graders.
Eighth-graders in junior high can provide applesauce, fruit cups and pudding cups. The freshmen can donate Ramen noodles.
At the high school, sophomores are asked to donate pasta, juniors are asked to donate pasta sauce and seniors can provide peanut butter or cheese cracker packages.
The New Horizons building is seeking instant macaroni and cheese. District employees in the administration building are asking for canned tuna and chicken.
The district is working in partnership with AHFH for the third consecutive year. The truck will be stationed at the Lake Hamilton football game on Thursday against Little Rock Hall. Fans will be able to donate any nonperishable food items.
Lake Hamilton’s program began in the 2011-12 school year by former students Cameron Anderson and Jordan Roper. About 50 pounds of ground venison, or about 200 meals’ worth of food, was collected.
The parent center worked with AHFH to established a partnership with Black’s Country Butcher two years ago. More than 800 pounds of venison was collected in the second year of the program.
The district easily surpassed its goal of 1,000 pounds a year ago.
Anyone interested in donating can take a legally tagged and field-dressed deer to Black’s Custom Butchering, located at 1460 Oakgrove Road in Royal. Black’s will store the meat until the Parent Center is able to pick it up for distribution.