Members of the Ohio State Buckeyes football team helped out at three area facilities that provide for senior citizens, the poor and the under-privileged. Virtually the entire team to help out at the Mid-Ohio Food Bank and LifeCARE Alliance’s two facilities.
The Buckeyes were split into two 25-member teams for their task of filling boxes with enough food to feed one senior citizen for at least a week. The players were stationed around pallets of peanut butter, juice, cans of fruits and vegetables, cereal, milk, rice and meats and two assembly lines produced a whopping 536 boxes of food in about an hour’s worth of work.
Team Doran Grant-Darryl Baldwin-Taylor Decker loaded up an even 300 boxes to down Team Jeff Heuerman-Evan Spencer-Nick Vannett by a considerable margin that really didn’t matter much because the work the players did was appreciated by the staff at the food bank.
“When you are distributing 55 million pounds of food each year, you need a lot of volunteers,” Mid-Ohio Food Bank vice president Marilyn Tomasi said. “Having the Buckeyes football team here helping brings awareness to our causes and helps raise support for our organization so we can make an even larger impact. We look forward to this week in more ways than one. We are thrilled to have them help.”
The Buckeyes put in good work
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