Food fight: Kids (and others) take on hunger

Decatur Daily Democrat:

The recent Kids Against Hunger event at Wyneken Memorial Lutheran School north of Decatur brought together 224 people from Adams, Allen, Wells, and Van Wert counties who turned 8,000 pounds of food into 53,000 meal packages in just one day.

The weight of all the food was nearly four tons, according to Event Coordinator Joe Gorman.

The meals will be divided in the following manner: about 29,000 to five food banks in Adams County, more than 15,600 to the African nation of Sierra Leone, almost 5,100 to the Wells County Food Pantry, and more than 3,200 to the food pantry at St. Joseph Catholic Church at Hessen Cassel of southern Allen County.