Farragut High School Student Government Association Canned Food Drive for The Love Kitchen
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Junior Delaney Kohlstedt and Senior Max Wegzyn - Photos by Alan Sloan
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From left, freshman Kate Bruce and juniors Dayton Kennedy and Madison Foshie - Photos by Alan Sloan
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Senior Audrey Meadows in front, with freshman Adelaide Meadows and junior Evan Deucker - Photos by Alan Sloan
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Seniors Janie Hicks, left, and Grace Morgan - Photos by Alan Sloan
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Sophomore Reagan Masengill - Photos by Alan Sloan
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Sophomore Sophie Dotson - Photos by Alan Sloan
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Sophomore Will Duncan - Photos by Alan Sloan
Collecting roughly 17,000 cans of food and about $10,000 in cash (and converting each dollar into two cans), the equivalent was 37,000 cans raised during annual Farragut High School Student Government Association Canned Food Drive for The Love Kitchen in East Knoxville, which set yet another record for TLK giving in its eighth year of the Drive.
This year’s SGA-led Drive (84 students strong at FHS) involved all four Farragut public schools (K-12) during a two-week span in late February and early March, ending with SGA students delivering all cans and money donations to TLK Friday afternoon, March 5.
The schools’ breakdown follows: Farragut Intermediate School 10,214 (cans and equivalent cans in cash); Farragut Primary School, in its first Love Kitchen CFD, collected 9,242; Farragut High School 6,474; and Farragut Middle School 6,254.
“We also used a platform called Give Butter. That allowed people to donate directly to the cause, and that raised an additional 4,816 cans,” said Elizabeth Blankenship, an FHS social studies teacher who sponsors SGA along with Shasta Todd, a fellow teacher.
