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The Knox County Career Center Online Auction to Benefit Food for the Hungry is Now Live!

The Knox County Career Center online auction of themed baskets returns to benefit Food For The Hungry!
The KCCC students and staff are helping you with your Christmas shopping through this great event.

This is an online silent auction featuring 11 themed gift baskets and 8 individual items/collections. Local businesses donated over $8500 worth of product and services, and that doesn’t even count what the KCCC labs are providing! Thanks to these generous donations, every dollar brought in goes to benefit Food for the Hungry.

WNZR had the chance to speak with Jim Riggle, KCCC principal, about this year’s auction and other FFTH Collection endeavors. You can listen to the entire conversation HERE.

The themed baskets include:

  • K9 Christmas (valued at $70)
  • OSU Basket (valued at $300 – $400)
  • Two Car Care Baskets (Each valued at over $300)
  • Downtown Date Night Basket (valued at $550)
  • Family Fun Basket ($590)
  • Foodies Basket (valued at over $750)
  • For Her Basket (valued at over $550)
  • For Him Basket (valued at almost $550)
  • Getaway Date Night Basket (valued at over $500)
  • Graduation Party Basket (valued at over $1200)

Individual Items or Collections up for bid this year:

  • Cherished Teddies Figurines
  • Four Crown Barclay China – 6 Place settings
  • Two 3 Month memberships to the MV YMCA
  • One ton of wood pellets from Buckeye Stoves
  • 8 Stacking chairs from Staples
  • Wedding Reception at the Gallagher Center (valued at $1,000)
  • 2021 YCF Lite F110 Motorcycle from Mid-Ohio Powersports (valued at $1,349)

Bidding ends at 3pm on Friday, 12/9. The winning bidders will be announced in the Food for the Hungry broadcast from the Memorial Theater at the Knox Memorial later that day.

To view the baskets and items and to place your bid, click HERE.

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Food For The Hungry 2022: Elementary School Collections

Food For The Hungry is underway once more in Knox County, and WNZR is excited to share news of the incredible efforts to raise food and funds for the community. We had the opportunity to speak with Sandra Fithian of Psi Iota Xi about the sorority’s involvement with this year’s Elementary School Collection.

It is amazing to see the youth of Knox County get involved in helping their neighbors. WNZR is so excited to see the results of the collections this week. For the entire conversation with Sandra, click HERE. For details on the collections and what food items to donate, check out the image below! To learn more about Food For The Hungry or to get involved, click HERE.

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Play Cornhole and Raise Money for Food For The Hungry!

MacKenzie Ernsberger, KCCC Senior studying Landscaping and Design and Keeleigh Johnston, KCCC alum share about the upcoming Cornhole Tournament on November 13 to benefit Food For The Hungry.

The ladies share about their involvement at the Knox County Career Center. MacKenzie tells us the story of how her Junior class ended the school year last Spring by playing cornhole, and she had the idea to make a fundraiser with this fun game!

You can register by email nursecampbell@gmail.com or by calling 740-501-1315.

The 1st place winners will receive a $500 prize, and the 2nd place winners will receive coupons for 1 hour of axe throwing.

All the money raised at this fundraiser will be donated to Food For The Hungry.

MacKenzie and Keeleigh share how their lab at KCCC is involved with raising money for FFTH.

They also share their thoughts about the Food For The Hungry slogan – “Working Together to Care for Our Neighbors.” They also share their passion in working to raise money for this campaign.

Click HERE to listen to the conversation.

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38th Food For the Hungry Reactions

The staff of Food For The Hungry had a fantastic day on Saturday being apart of the raising of over $209,000.

Right after the broadcast ended Hunter Sutyak ran around Memorial Theater and got reactions from the staff about the success of the event.

To hear all the reactions click HERE

To still donate to Food For The Hungry click HERE

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Lisa Mazzari gives all the details about Food For The Hungry 2019

Lisa Mazzari the coordinator of Food For The Hungry talked with us this morning all the about the drive which begins tomorrow at 9am.

We have been getting ready for this event and Lisa sums up all of it before we begin.

To hear the conversation click HERE

Visit the FFTH website HERE

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Kailea Sparks FFTH 2019 New Website, Totals and More

We have been talking all about Food For The Hungry the last couple weeks. It is here. It is tomorrow and we could not be more excited!

We talked with Assistant Coordinator of Food For The Hungry, Kailea Sparks, in preparation. She shared about the new website, how to find totals and the pop up auctions.

To hear the conversation click HERE

To visit the new website click HERE

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All ages supporting Food For The Hungry

Children of all ages are helping support the annual food drive Food For The Hungry.

Wesley Boston had a chance to go to Esther Jetter  Preschool on the campus of MVNU to see how these young ones are helping support this event

To hear this cute conversation click HERE

For more about Food For The Hungry click HERE

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Food For The Hungry: Lisa Mazzari

Today we talked with Lisa Mazzari of Food For The Hungry and she is the Food For The Hungry Coordinator.

Lisa began by telling us the importance of this event and where the proceeds and the food that has been donated will be going. Lisa also shared with us about the Food For The Hungry kickoff and the goals that have been set for this year. If you missed any of our conversation click HERE. 

Also for more information visit the Food For The Hungry website by clicking HERE.

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