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pantries and food banks for distribu-
tion closer to home.
This is the fourth year of this event
here in Plymouth. Schultz, Harrison
and their committee members
emphasize that this Greater
Plymouth/Canton Coalition effort is
an outgrowth of an idea of the late
Dave Siegrist. Siegrist and fellow
members of the Plymouth Kiwanis
Club had been involved in the Kids
Against Hunger campaign for years.
A few years back, Siegrist came up
with the idea of bringing all the serv-
ice clubs together to work to address
hunger locally and abroad.
When Dave Siegrist, a Kiwanian,
passed in the middle of the first Several members of the Carl Schultz Family enjoying a packaging outing.
year's campaign, his torch got packaged over one million meals in adult or 500,000 children's meals.
passed to Nick Schultz, a member of just four short years. While they still have a way to go in
the Rotary Club of Plymouth A.M. Because all of the ingredients for their fundraising efforts, Schultz tips
Nick stepped in to try to fill Dave's the meals must be purchased, one of his hat to their many generous
shoes. Schultz is proud that, in the major components of the event is donors to date, including John
Dave's memory, by the end of this raising the funds to buy the goods. Blackwell III of Plymouth's Blackwell
year's event the Plymouth/Canton This year's fundraising goal is Ford. Schultz refers to Blackwell as
community volunteers will have $70,000, enough to package 250,000 “a gem of a guy.” (Blackwell Ford

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