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Atom Rep players Brett Williamson and Robert Campbell, along with parent Randy
Lammerant help their team unload a truckload of food into the Drive Away Hunger
tractor which stopped in Seaforth Friday.
Atom Rep team fills
truck drive away hunger
large amount of food collected in
Seaforth they agreed to stop at
Lions Park Friday to .collect the
donation.
"Our goal was 100,000 pounds but
so far we've collected 145,000
pounds. It's looking very good. We
won't know until Monday but we
might double our goal," said Farm
Credit Canada's district manager
Perry Wilson during the Seaforth
stop.
On Friday, travelling from
Woodstock to Clinton, the Drive
Away Hunger tractor collected
14,000 pounds of food.
"It's because of people like you
that we're able to collect all this
food," the young hockey players
were told on Friday.
A press release from Farm Credit
_Canada received on Monday said
the tour finished in Guelph with
350,845 pounds of food for the hun-
gry in rural Ontario, more than
tripling the original goal.
"We're amazed by the generosity
of our sponsors and the overwhelm-
ing response from all the people
across Ontario who dropped off food
with us," said John Geurtjens, Drive
Away Hunger tour leader and FCC
District Manager in Guelph in the
press release.
Monday was World Hunger Day,
held every Oct., 16 to raise aware-
ness about world food issues and to
motivate the public , to address
hunger, malnutrition and poverty.
Susan Hunde?rt.mark
The Seaforth Atom Rep team
filled the back of a pick-up truck
with 1,124 pounds of food, splitting
the amount between the Seaforth
Food Bank and the Drive Away
Hunger tour going through Ontario
last week.
With a coach who wanted his play-
ers to perform some community ser-
vice this year, the Seaforth Atom
Rep team participated in Farm
Credit Canada's Drive Away Hunger
campaign by collecting food last
Monday from friends and family.
Organizer Brenda Campbell. asked
each of the 12 players to contact
between five and seven friends and
family members and ask them to
contribute a food donation.
"We asked for a couple of cans to
be left on the front porch. Some left
a few cans and some left a few bags
of cans. People were very generous,"
says Campbell.
"We were driving around Seaforth
and people were stopping us saying,
`Wait, let me give you something,'"
she says, adding that about 100 gro-
cery bags were collected.
The Drive Away Hunger tour,
which began in. both Windsor and
Ottawa on Oct. 10, ended in Guelph
on Oct. 16 when the two tractors,
pulling a wagonload of food met in
the middle.
While Seaforth was not initially
planned to be a stop on the tour,
when organizers heard about the