John Hardin High School FFA Chapter Vice President Madison Carter told the Quicksie morning show that each year their teacher challenges them to find an issue in the community, and then to come up with a solution.
“This Saturday from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. we have food trucks coming to the Bluegrass Middle School bus parking lot, and either the food trucks paid $75 to set up for the day or 10 percent of their earnings for the day go to Warm Blessings,” Carter said. “We also are receiving donations, canned food donations or money donations, and it’s all going to go back to Warm Blessings.”
John Hardin FFA Chapter President Lauren Bowman said the students felt the event, called “Spring into Action: Food Trucks for Food Insecurity”, would make the most impact by donating the proceeds to Warm Blessings.
“We did our research, and we found that they give out and help the most in our community, because one in seven adults and one in five students are food insecure, so doing our research and finding that out we learned that they give the most help,” Bowman said.
The students are expecting about a dozen food trucks will be on hand for the event. Bluegrass Middle School is located at 170 W.A. Jenkins Road in Elizabethtown. Visit the John Hardin Agricultural Education/FFA Facebook page for more information.
