Lydia De Wolf
Reporter   

            During the month of November, the Brighton Student Council organized a school-wide volunteering trip to Kansas City’s only food bank, Harvesters Community Food Network.  Harvesters is an organization that collects, sorts, and distributes food in their fight against hunger.  If you didn’t make it to the school trip, here are a few facts about Harvesters, taken from their website, www.harvesters.org. 
            “Harvesters is a food bank, which is a centralized food collection and distribution facility that provides food and household products to agencies serving people in need. 
            “In 2008, Harvesters distributed more than 28 million pounds of food and household products in our 13-county direct service area in and around Kansas City. 
            Harvesters can feed five people for just $1. That kind of efficiency can only come from the central distribution model in which dollars are leveraged to acquire, transport, sort, package, store and distribute donated food.”
            Hats off to Harvesters for their good work, and a big “thank you” to the Brighton students who donated food and their time to this mission work! ▲