I think I told a few of you that my company, Berry Plastics came up with a great way to help out a lot of people in our community. For those of you who have not been to Berry Plastics, we have a big field to the east of our plant, 7 acres to be exact. One of our employees had the idea to grow some food to help out those in need, especially now, with so many people out of work in Elkhart County. So we planted sweet corn, yes 7 acres of sweencorn. If you're wondering how much that might equate to, it's somewhere around 9,000 dozen (100,000 ears)!!! We lined up a lot of area food pantries and churches to come and pick up the corn. Since it is a parishible food, it needs to be used as soon as possible. We thought we may have trouble getting willing agencies to take it, but we were very wrong. We got rid of every last ear...truly amazing. God definitely had a plan for each ear that we gave away. It was a lot of fun to be a part of something so big like this. Every person that came and picked up the corn was so grateful for it, and in turn they said "you have no idea how many people you will make very happy for this food"
We did get some media coverage out of this event, so I'm going to give you a link to the Elkhart Truth. It was on the front page of the paper this AM, and I just happened to be in one of the pictures on the front page. You couldn't see my face, but my name got in the caption! :) Our local NBC station was also there and did a news story on our project, but I haven't seen anything online yet. If I do, I'll be sure to send those on. So, check out the link (you may have to copy and paste into your browser):
http://www.etruth.com/Know/News/Story.aspx?ID=492847
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