Lakeland Mirror

Issue date: 4/17/08 Section: News

This week during lunch and dinner times, you can donate non-perishable food to any particular faculty/staff member. The five who have the most food at the end of the week will participate in a pie eating contest.

Although final exams are approaching, members of Lakeland College Service Group (LCSG) are still willing to spend some of their precious time helping the community.

LCSG is currently organizing a donation event that everyone can be part of. The idea of the food drive is to get everyone to participate. LCSG will receive donations of non perishable foods and all the food items will be donated to the community.

According to Cathy Sims, president of LCSG, the most exciting part of this year's LCSG activity will be the food drive. There will be seven faculty and staff members participating in the food drive. Each one of them will have a box with their name written on it. The five faculty and staff whose boxes have the most food will be in a pie eating contest. The two who lose the pie eating contest will have pies thrown at their faces at the End of the Year Bash.

There are chances to throw pies at the faces of the following faculty and staff participants: April Arvan, Alicia Helion, Greg Smith, Jessica Lambrecht, Paul White, Lisa Stephan, and Rick Dodgson.

The names of people who donate food will be recorded and entered into a raffle. Twelve names will be drawn; those people will be the ones to throw pies at the losers of the pie eating contest.

LCSG has sponsored the food drive for two years. Last year was a success with 678 items collected, and all the food was donated to the Bridge Way House in Sheboygan. LCSG takes advice from the President of Lakeland College, Steven Gould, in choosing the place to donate to. This year Gould suggested donating to the Plymouth Food Pantry.

Sims says, "The food drive is such a huge event, and it takes time to plan." She was worried about getting the faculty and staff members to volunteer in the event. When she requested a few faculty and staff to participate in the food drive, seven of them gladly agreed to volunteer. She is grateful for the support that LCSG is receiving.

The pie eating contest will take place outside the campus center on April 25. Everyone can watch the faculty and staff eating the seven and eight inch pies without using any eating utensils.

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