Lincoln College students to line campus with food to help local agencies

[November 13, 2008]  Several student groups from Lincoln College will again line the campus with cans of food donated by the public in order to bring awareness of helping feed those in need.

Members of Rotaract, Black Student Union and the Lincoln College Honors Program will be at Lincoln's Wal-Mart store on Nov. 23, noon-3 p.m., in hopes of getting everyone in the community to help with donated food items. All items will help the Lincoln/Logan County Food Pantry and CIEDC.

Michelle Baldwin, faculty sponsor of the Lincoln College Honors Program, hopes that the students and the community can work together to help those in need. "Many of our students want to help and really do understand the need that is out there," said Baldwin.

John Stoltzenburg, LC director of student activities, will help coordinate the effort of lining up the collection. Stoltzenburg says he hopes to collect more items this year. "The students that did this last year saw firsthand how our community responds to the need of hunger," he said. "The kids were encouraged by the actions of the general public, and hopefully we can do it again this year."

Plans are to start the line of donated items on Nov. 25 at 3 p.m. at McKinstry Library and to stretch the items to the Heritage West residence hall.

Stoltzenburg said that some of the items the agencies are asking for are peanut butter, canned fruits and vegetables, cereal, soup, macaroni and cheese, soda crackers, 100 percent fruit juices, toilet paper, diapers, soap, shampoo, toothbrushes, and feminine hygiene products.

[Text from file received from Lincoln College]