'Cans Around Old Main' falls short of food collection goal

'Cans Around Old Main' falls short of food collection goal

By Darin Stone
Arizona Daily Wildcat
November 25, 1996

Gregory Harris
Arizona Daily Wildcat
Diana Grose (left), music performance sophomore, and Tom Ziegler, pharmacology/toxicology doctoral candidate, collect canned goods for the food drive Friday in front of Old Main. Two UA groups attempted to gather enough food to encircle the building, but were not successful. They did, however, collect enough food to fill six large boxes.

With the holidays coming up, two UA student groups collected six large boxes of canned goods to help the Tucson community.
Intervarsity Christian Fellowship and the Graduate Christian Fellowship sponsored a canned food drive last week called "Cans Around Old Main" with hopes to provide the Community Food Bank an adequate supply of food for the holidays.
Erin Phillippe, genetics graduate student, said her organization was getting involved because it was a good way to serve the needs of the community.
"We knew there was a need and this was the best way to meet that need," she said.
About 20 people from both groups collected canned foods Wednesday through Friday, Phillippe said. Although the two groups did not collect enough cans to circle Old Main as they had hoped, they did gather the six boxes full of food.
Jennifer Valente, family studies senior, said her organization hoped to help the food bank during the holiday season.
"(The Community Food Bank) is at the lowest level it's been at in a long time," Valente said. "With the holidays coming up, we knew this was a time when they needed a lot of food."
The food bank donates over $14 million worth of food annually to Tucsonans eligible for food programs, families waiting for food stamps and organizations providing meals to various individuals. About 65 percent of the food bank's food services go to child ren.