Using football to feed the hungry
As many families across our nation gather to celebrate Thanksgiving this week, we would like to thank the Blue Ridge Area Food Bank for giving many area families more to celebrate this Thursday.
Many people spend Thanksgiving enjoying the 3 F’s: food, family, and football. With that in mind, the Blue Ridge Area Food Bank wanted to use football as a way to help fight hunger in the area and called on the Heritage and E.C. Glass football families.
The idea was to use the Glass/Heritage football game as a means to raise money to provide deserving families with a Thanksgiving turkey.
Fifteen dollars paid for two tickets to the game with the extra proceeds going to buy a turkey for a deserving family. A goal of 300 turkeys was set. While most people know that Heritage beat Glass that night in football, most do not know that Heritage, Glass and the Lynchburg community raised $4,702 and purchased 488 Thanksgiving turkeys.
This past Monday, Heritage and Glass football players delivered those turkeys to families in the Lynchburg area, hopefully giving those families more to celebrate this week.
We would like to thank Kristi West, branch manager of the Blue Ridge Area Food Bank, football coaches Doug Smith and Richard Trent, Play-it-Smart coaches Maggie Davis and Gavin Davis, the Heritage and Glass football families and the Lynchburg community for helping us to exceed our goal of 300 turkeys.
The turkey drive was a huge success and we hope to make it even more successful next year. On behalf of Heritage High School and E.C. Glass High School, we wish all of you a very happy Thanksgiving!
CHIP BERRY and MARK STORM
Directors of Athletics
E.C. Glass High School and Heritage High School
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