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Reminder Assistant Editor LONGMEADOW Bay Path College participated in the national food drive CANS ACROSS AMERICA, last week. The college collected 553.32 pounds of canned goods in the foyer of the Blake Student Commons from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. on Oct. 18. Sodexho Campus Dining, the food services provider for Bay Path, sponsored the drive and approached the college about participating in the event. "Sodexho is very involved in the fight against hunger," said Heidi Gregoire, director of dining services. All [Sodexho] campus dining universities had a can drive. We were trying to break the Guinness World Record." Gregoire said the current record for the largest food drive by a non-charitable organization in a 24-hour period is 156,889.34 pounds. Bay Path surpassed their goal of 500 punds. "This is an inititative that they started and we were extremely glad to be able to particiapte," explained Director of Publications and Advertising for Bay Path Joanne I. Guernsey. Guernsey said they wanted to engage the entire community in the drive. "[Hunger is] an important pressing issue in our time right now and trying to get some canned goods for the homeless was a great suggestion, so we took it up," Guernsey said. CANS ACROSS AMERICA was created to address childhood hunger. The drive encourages groups to host canned food drives in their communities. All of Bay Path's collections will be donated to the Open Pantry in Springfield. "Hopefully it will feed quite a few families," Gregoire added. "It's just nice to be able to give back to the community. We forget that, our lives get so busy at times, I remember [when Springfield] had Tent City, we shouldn't have to have that there. It's really distressing." Sodexho Campus Dining will find out their total count of donated canned goods the first week in November. |
