Food 'N Fun Challenge Winners Announced

SANDY SPRINGS, GA —Thirty-two teams from Sandy Springs and Dunwoody collected 56,772 pounds of food in Community Assistance Center's 2018 Food 'n Fun Challenge. Donations from the Challenge will stock the organization's Food Pantry to provide for local families in need and eliminate child hunger this coming summer.

CAC distributes 55,000 pounds of food a month which serves 500 to 800 families or about 1,200 visits a month to the pantry. While requests for food assistance typically increase during the summer, donations to the food pantry typically decline.

During the summer months, families living on tight budgets face additional financial stress as food costs increase when children are home for school vacation and not receiving free lunches at school. Food donations from the Food 'n Fun Challenge help ensure families can get the food they need during the summer.

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Businesses, schools, congregations, civic groups, neighborhoods and city government departments took on the challenged to see which team could bring in the most donations. The winners were announced on Tuesday, May 1 during CAC's building dedication and open house. The winners, which are broken down by categories, are:

Business

• Graphic Packaging – 15,340 lbs.

Congregation

• Saint Jude the Apostle Catholic Church & Knights of Columbus Council 16513 – 14,090 lbs

Elementary School

• Heards Ferry Elementary – 1st Place 4,127 lbs.
• Austin Elementary – 2nd Place 2,762 lbs.

High School

• Mount Vernon Presbyterian School – 3,353 lbs.

Pack the Pantry Partner

• Dunwoody United Methodist Church – 3,367 lbs.
• Sandy Springs Police – 2,642 lbs.

Stomp Out Hunger Partner

• Temple Sinai - 8,862 lbs

Photo: Representing Heards Ferry Elementary School is Reese Moorhead, left, 7, Raechel Moorhead of Heards Ferry PTA which supported the Food 'n Fun effort, and Luke Moorhead, 9. Credit: Fulton County Schools/Community Assistance Center