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Text Box:     Home       How to Help      Barrel Locations      Progress Report      Schools       Who's Joined?    Contact Us Text Box:   WARREN COUNTY 2011 BASKETBALL FOR FOOD GAME SCHEDULES        to be posted soon                              YELLOW = Winner   PLEASE BRING CANNED GOODS WITH YOU TO THE GAME & SUPPORT YOUR TEAM’S EFFORT & COMMUNITY!     Text Box:  Warren County Board of Commissioners, 406 Justice Drive, Lebanon, OH 45036 513-384-6637

Text Box: All Warren County’s School Districts are key partners in this year’s countywide food drive   More families than ever are seeking assistance during these tough economic times.  Meanwhile, our food pantries in Warren County are struggling to keep their shelves stocked amid increasing demand and soaring food costs and “Kids Who Care” are working to help give back to the communities who have been so generous in supporting their schools every years.   The High School boy’s basketball teams and cheerleaders are organizing “Basketball for Food” campaigns, whose concept was started by Lebanon City Schools 3  years ago and promoted this year through the Ohio High School Athletic Association Foundation. All 8 school districts in Warren County are participating this year and over 500 other school districts across the state are introducing “Basketball for Food” in their communities for the first time.   What is “Basketball for Food”?  About 2 weeks before a special designated basketball game, the High School Basketball Teams and Cheerleaders in each school begin food drives at each of the school buildings in their district, by asking all students to get involved, bring donations of non-perishable and canned goods from home and even help generate donations from neighbors and friends.  Cash donations are also encouraged, since Food Pantries need money to purchase perishable food items, like eggs, milk, meat, bread, etc.    Then, on the night of their special “Basketball for Food” game, the community is invited to attend the game and admission to the game includes bringing donations of non-perishable & canned goods that are collected at the gate.   All food donation are weighed and cash donations counted and at the conclusion of halftime, the teams announce the amount of food they collected for their local food pantry. (Can you see how this might generate a little competition between the opposing teams on who can collect the most food?)  THAT’S WHY IT IS SO IMPORTANT FOR YOU TO COME OUT AND SUPPORT YOUR HOME TEAM WHILE HELPING OUR NEIGHBORS IN NEED AT THE SAME TIME!   Lebanon High School raised 12,000 pounds of food their second year and over 22,000 pounds of food and $5,000 last year.  Can you imagine how much food could potentially be collected with 8 schools this year?

Text Box: Half time “Hoop Shoot” competitions offered at each Basketball for Food game from County Commissioners Dave Young & Mike Kilburn! Text Box: We’ll keep you posted on who each team puts up to compete in this year’s 5 half time Hoop Shoot Free Throw competitions against Commissioner Dave Young and Mike Kilburn. Money is on the line…...and the winners will ultimately be the Food Pantries in each community.   Up for consideration? School Superintendents Principals School Board Presidents School Coaches A special Resident or Business Person from the Community   Text Box:   IT ISN’T BASKETBALL….. IT’S FOODBALL!   And “Kids Who Care” Text Box: LINKS TO OUR FOOD DRIVE PARTNERSHIP SCHOOLS   Carlisle Local Schools   Franklin City Schools   Kings Local Schools   Lebanon City Schools   Little Miami Local Schools   Mason City Schools   Springboro City Schools   Waynesville Local Schools   Warren County Career Center   Warren County Educational Service Center

 

Text Box: Basketball for Food & School BackPack Programs   Text Box: The 2011 Basketball Schedule Will be Posted Soon....Please Check Back!

Text Box: BASKETBALL FOR FOOD REPORT   SCHOOL                 2009                             2009                 2010             2010                                                                       Food                           Money              Food           Money              Springboro               500#                            $200              Waynesville           9,000#  (9,673 food items) $1,154              10,361#             -0-              Lebanon               24,045#                        $2,538              17,435#             -0-              Franklin                               Carlisle                  2,479#                             -0-              Little Miami            1,010#  (1,400 items)         $ 690               1,378#             -0-              Kings                                                                               1,400#            $790            Total:                    37,034#                      $4,582                 29,174#         $790  

Text Box:  Warriors BackPack Program   KIDS CAN’T LEARN IF THEY’RE HUNGRY   Lebanon City Schools started a "BackPack program 2 years, like many other Warren County School Districts. We send home 6 meals in a back pack with 176 students in grades kindergarten through sixth grades every Friday during the school year.  Based on income eligibility, approximately 23% of the Lebanon students receive free or reduce breakfast and lunch programs. This is about 1200 students and about 360 of those students auto- matically qualify for free breakfast and lunch due to Family income or special needs.   According to the May 25, 2009 edition of the Ohio School Boards Association newsletter Briefcase, 23.8% of Ohioans under the age of five live on the brink of hunger. Almost 1 in four Ohio Children are not consistently receiving enough nutritious food to lead a healthy life reported by the hunger-relief charity Feeding America. That puts Ohio as the third highest rate of food insecurity in the U.S., behind only Louisiana and North Carolina.   When you look at the numbers of children who qualify for the lunch program in Lebanon, it works out to approximately 7 children in each classroom of 28 students in the Lebanon City Schools. We realize that the 176 back packs that will go home with students in grades kindergarten through sixth grade will not address all of the problems. But, we hope that by providing this necessary essential of supporting a healthy body, it will help decrease the physical and mental impairment that might never be reversed in a child.   It costs about $25,000 for each school district to provide these weekend Back Pack meals to eligible children for the entire school year.    If you would like to become a "BackPack" Sponsor for the kids in your school district, please contact me and I will make sure to connect you with the appropriate contact in your school district. Any contribution is greatly appreciated but for $100, you will be feeding one child, every weekend for the entire school year…...and that is making a positive impact!   If you would like to make a cash donation for this effort, please contact Lebanon Superintendent Mark North or call him at 513-934-5770.    Thank you for your interest, support and efforts.   Lebanon City Schools Board of Education Offices Mr. Mark North, Superintendent 700 Holbrook Ave., Lebanon, OH 45036 513-934-5770 North.Mark@lebanon.k12.oh.us Web: www.lebanon.k12.oh.us