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Hingham 7th Graders Plan To Trick or Treat For Donations Instead of Candy

Hingham Middle School seventh graders will be participating in a team competition to collect donations for the Hingham Food Pantry.

If a Hingham seventh grader rings your doorbell Halloween night looking for donations instead of treats, don’t be alarmed.

Hingham Middle School seventh graders will be participating in a team competition, Halloween for Hunger.  Instead of trick-or-treating for candy, they will trick-or-treat for non perishable foods, according to HMS assistant principal David Riordan.

In an email to parents, Riordan said students will be collecting items such as canned soup, canned vegetables, peanut butter, jelly, canned tuna, pasta, rice, canned fruit, canned beans, canned spaghetti sauce, cereal, and canned, plastic or boxed fruit juice.

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The idea for the Halloween collection is part of the Hingham Middle food drive  which will run from Oct 29- Nov. 6  to benefit the Hingham Interfaith Food Pantry at 685 Main Street, which serves 50 Hingham families weekly.

On the last day of the drive, the school will set up an “Election Collection” at Hingham High School and HMS.  The Hingham Town Clerk’s Office will also be accepting donations from absentee ballot voters.

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According to the volunteers at the Food Pantry, if every voter donated one item, that would be enough for 1,300 bags of groceries, which is the amount distributed each month by the pantry.

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