Farm Bureau and Food Banks Win Big with Farm to Football
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2/20/2018
For three months, 82 classrooms in 16 schools across the state collected coins as part of the From Farm to Football Harvest for All Coin Drive raising more than $4,000. Classrooms collected their coins for a cause: to help feed the hungry in their community.
Seven of Arizona’s Community Food Banks received checks to continue their mission of fighting hunger.
1. St Mary’s Food Bank = $439.66
2. United Food Bank = $1,053.1
3. Duncan Food Bank = $535.09
4. Agua Fria Community Food Bank = $1,209.19
5. East Santa Cruz Food Bank = $228.57
6. ICM Food Bank = $292.74
7. Our Lady of the Snow Food Bank = $368.79
In total, $4,127.14 was raised by Arizona students through the From Farm to Football Harvest for All Coin Drive. Sharman Hickman of Hickman’s Family Farms “believes the most valuable players of our future are the youth in our communities.” Sharman is looking forward to next year’s program “where the game plan is to get as many Arizona students as possible to raise $1.”
Can you imagine if every student donated $1 to the program? we could raise over $1 million to fight hunger!
As part of the From Farm to Football Program, classes were also competing for the chance to win an Arizona Cardinals Day at their school. The class that collected the largest $ amount through the coin drive received a 1 ½ hour event that included the Arizona Cardinals Cheerleaders, Big Red, Arizona Cardinals Outside Linebacker Markus Golden, Hickman’s Family Farms, and Arizona Farm Bureau’s Ag in the Classroom Program. The big winners of this prize were the 5 th graders at Zuni Hills Elementary of the Peoria School District who raised $261.09 for their local food bank. In fact, it was just 12 students in Ms. Page’s class that took on the mission to help the hungry. Their efforts paid off for the entire 5 th Grade Team!
From Farm to Football Harvest for All Coin Drive Participants
Buckeye Elementary Buckeye Kindergarten $44.64
Buckeye Elementary Buckeye 3 rd grade $7.20
Buckeye Elementary Buckeye 5
Buckeye Elementary Buckeye 6 th Grade $29.47
Country Meadows Elementary Peoria 2 nd Grade $24.64
Duncan Elementary Duncan 3 rd Grade $14.19
Duncan Elementary Duncan 4 th Grade $171.32
Duncan Elementary Duncan 5 th Grade $30.88
Duncan Elementary Duncan 6 th Grade $16.54
Duncan Elementary Duncan 7 th Grade $91.32
Duncan Elementary Duncan 8 th Grade 32.27
Gateway Polytechnic Academy Queen Creek Kindergarten $9.89
Gateway Polytechnic Academy Queen Creek 1 st Grade $7.54
Gateway Polytechnic Academy Queen Creek 2 nd Grade $2.81
Gateway Polytechnic Academy Queen Creek 3 rd Grade $231.09
Gateway Polytechnic Academy Queen Creek 4 th Grade $65.19
Gateway Polytechnic Academy Queen Creek 5
Liberty Elementary Buckeye 3 rd Grade $29.00
Liberty Elementary Buckeye 7 th Grade $30.44
Liberty Elementary Buckeye $18.20
Payson Elementary Payson 2 nd Grade $71.18
Patagonia Montessori Patagonia 6 th Grade $50.00
Roosevelt Elementary Mesa 2 nd Grade $19.65
Roosevelt Elementary Mesa 4 th Grade $42.66
Roosevelt Elementary Mesa 5 th Grade $12.48
Peralta Trail Elementary Gold Canyon 2 nd Grade $39.38
Queen Creek Elementary Queen Creek Kinder $34.86
Queen Creek Elementary Queen Creek 3 rd Grade $11.73
Queen Creek Elementary Queen Creek 4 th Grade $39.56
Saguaro Elementary School Casa Grande 2 nd Grade $27.23
St Thomas Aquinas Catholic Avondale Kinder $90.74
St Thomas Aquinas Catholic Avondale 1 st Grade $156.94
St Thomas Aquinas Catholic Avondale 2 nd Grade $142.89
St Thomas Aquinas Catholic Avondale 3 rd Grade $90.74
St Thomas Aquinas Catholic Avondale 4 th Grade $71.80
St Thomas Aquinas Catholic Avondale 5 th Grade $77.17
St Thomas Aquinas Catholic Avondale 6 th Grade $102.17
Trinity Lutheran School Litchfield Park Kinder $36.40
Trinity Lutheran School Litchfield Park 1 st Grade $12.92
Trinity Lutheran School Litchfield Park 2 nd Grade $29.04
Trinity Lutheran School Litchfield Park 3 rd Grade $25.47
Trinity Lutheran School Litchfield Park 4 th Grade $4.39
Trinity Lutheran School Litchfield Park 5 th Grade $7.84
Zuni Hills Elementary Sun City 5 th Grade $261.09
Snowflake High School Snowflake 9 th Grade $24.50
Snowflake High School Snowflake 10 th Grade $50.33
Snowflake High School Snowflake 11 th Grade $43.14
Snowflake High School Snowflake 12 th Grade $72.25
Thew Elementary Tempe Kinder $26.76
Thew Elementary Tempe 1 st Grade $33.65
Thew Elementary Tempe 2 nd Grade $39.57
Thew Elementary Tempe 3 rd Grade $75.30
Thew Elementary Tempe 4 th Grade $32.58
Thew Elementary Tempe 5 th Grade $64.84
Thew Elementary Tempe Counting Event $90.48
MidFirst Bank Match and Bonus $1,250
The From Farm to Football Program is a state-wide education program from Hickman’s Family Farms in partnership with the Arizona Cardinals and is administered by Arizona Farm Bureau’s Ag in the Classroom Program. With monthly video messages from Markus Golden and pen pal letters from Arizona farmers and ranchers, Arizona students could learn about the importance of agriculture on and off the football field. In this, just the 2 nd year of the program, 738 classes participated with over 17,500 students. For more information about the program visit us on the web at www.azfb.org.
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