AIC Baseball Strikes Out Hunger




Over the last month the Yellow Jackets baseball team has bee running its 2nd annual canned food drive for Lauren soup kitchen. last year  the baseball team managed to raised over 400lbs of food, an honorable number for their first effort. This year the team set there sights high and and targeted  1000 lbs of food as their goal.  More than doubling last years total seemed like a difficult task but the baseball team believed that with more marketing and experience this fundraiser was going to do great.

Grad student Jason Coscio the player in charge of this event said that he was very nervous to see if the team reached its goal. " I really hope we reach this goal, our guys have put a lot of work into raising this food. obviously the more we raise the more people we can help." said Coscio. When weigh in time came there was a lot of anticipation but  that turned into excitement has the scale shattered the goal. In total the baseball team raised over 1,4000 lbs of food! That will go a long way to help those in need this holiday season. To make your own contribution to the fight against hunger please visit of the the links to the cites of organizations that can help listed below.

Links to help:
 http://www.lorrainessoupkitchen.com/

https://www.actionagainsthunger.org/donate-now

http://fighthungerfoundation.org/


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