Posted at: 11/06/2009 7:31 PM
By: Ericka Miller

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Local Schools Get Creative for Food Drive

(ABC 6 NEWS) -- One month, 20 schools, and a lot of hard work goes into helping feed hungry people in southeast Minnesota.

Tonight, the channel one student food drive is wrapping up, and we'll finally know just how much food our local students have collected.

There was some singing.  There was some dancing.  There was even, one principal who was displaced by food.  As twenty local school districts participated in the channel one student food drive.

It started on September 28th, with a talent competition.

From there, schools got to work trying to raise as much food as they could, in a race against hunger.
    
"Some collect food at pep rallies, and at football games, some are going to do special activities, one is doing a concert, their having different bands play,” says Channel One’s Jennifer Woodford.

The goal was to raise 40-thousand pounds of food, and it was a challenge these kids took seriously.

"A lot of people don't know that people in our area are suffering from starvation,” says one student.

In Austin, they packed the principals office with food in the "Force Him Out Drive".

Down in Chatfield students sang at the local grocery store, songs they'd written especially for donations.
     
And in spring grove, the student council went lawn-to-lawn spreading the message.

It was a lot of fun, all for a good cause.