The Hunger Games fans have gathered tons of food for those in need across the country.
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According to
blogcritics.org
WSLS TV in Virginia reports that two high school classes carried out a food drive to benefit a local pantry in connection with their own Hunger Games trivia competition. WCYB TV reports
that movie goers have been asked to bring in canned goods to the
theater which will be donated to the Second Harvest Foodbank of
Northeast Tennessee.
The owner of a movie theater in Temecula, California has also set up a Hunger Games food drive. Also in California, the Monterey Free County Libraries are hosting a food drive in conjunction with the opening of the film.
Lisa Hamler-Fugitt of Ohio Association of Second Harvest
Foodbanks says she believes more such events are underway in her state.
She says that the Cleveland Food Bank is also helping spread the word
about a Sundance independent film about hunger called Finding North.
Posted on
Sunday, April 01, 2012
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