18 Tons of Peanut Butter and Jelly Collected in 7th Annual PB&J Challenge
Students from Winning Schools Sort Tons of PB&J
Milwaukee, Wis.- The warehouse at Feeding America Eastern Wisconsin is overflowing with peanut butter and jelly thanks to the many schools that participated in the 7th Annual Peanut Butter and Jelly Challenge. Students from 88 area schools collected peanut butter and jelly during the month of October to help feed hungry kids. Including the collection at local Pick ’n Save stores, the program brought in 35,489 pounds of peanut butter and jelly. The PB&J Challenge encourages kids to help other children who are less fortunate. About 87,000 children rely on food from Second Harvest.
In the spirit of St. Nick, students from the winning schools will don Santa hats to help sort and box the peanut butter and jelly Thursday, December 3, 2009 beginning at 10 a.m. at Feeding America. Stickee, the PB&J mascot, will also be on hand to congratulate the winning schools. The winning schools in the most pounds of PB&J per school category are: Pleasant View School in Franklin with 837 pounds and Whitefish Bay Middle School with 2,462 pounds. The winners with the most pounds per student are St. Mark School in Kenosha with seven pounds per student, a total of 754 pounds and Hales Corners Lutheran Middle School with 17 pounds per student, a total of 2,420 pounds. The winning schools were honored during halftime of the Milwaukee Bucks game on November 7. Each winning school received a plaque and a $200 gift certificate to a local sporting goods store.
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Each year 235,000 people in Wisconsin rely on food supplied by Feeding America Eastern Wisconsin, formerly named America’s Second Harvest of Wisconsin. The food bank is the largest, private, non-profit distributor of food in the state. Feeding America Food Bank distributes nearly 12 million pounds of food annually to 1,100 food pantries, meal programs and shelters throughout Wisconsin. Feeding America Eastern Wisconsin is affiliated with Feeding America which is consistently ranked as one of the most efficient charities, out of the country’s 100 largest charities, by Forbes magazine. Since 1982, Feeding America Eastern Wisconsin has distributed more than 250 million pounds of food. To learn more about hunger in Wisconsin, log onto www.feedingamericawi.org.
