The Auburn School District is a big supporter of The Auburn Food Bank - Each and every school participates in a district wide food drive! 2010 - 56,000 pounds and $15,000 was donated! Schools compete internally for the classroom to bring in the most items -- and against each other for the most pounds per student brought in. Winners for 2010 are: Mt View High School for the 5th straight year; Olympic Middle School for the third straight year; and Hazelwood Elementary for the 4th time. THANK YOU, Students, Teachers and Administration!

Meghan, Kayla and Ryan --- decided they had all they needed -- great families, lots of love and great friends --- They threw their own Sweet 16 Birthday Party -- invited all their friends to bring toys for the holiday toy give-away and food for the food bank! Four hundred pounds of food and about 200 toy items were donated! Way to "pay it forward!"

I had barely taken on this job of Executive Director of The Auburn Food Bank when Bill Kyle came to pitch an idea: "Have you heard of the back pack program" he asked as he pulled out a newspaper article from Tarrant County, Texas -- to this day I have no idea where he got that newspaper.

But what I do know - is that Bill's heart started to spill out all over my desk.....kids were going hungry and Bill was determined to not let that happen in Auburn......