I met an amazing group of people yesterday. What makes them amazing is their caring hearts, desire to help and commitment to making their community better.
It all started with a food drive. Not just any food drive, but an “Extreme” food drive. While Ideal Homes and the Extreme Makeover Home Edition crews were building a house for a Lexington family, United Way of Norman was heading up a food drive to raise 23,000 pounds of food.
When 13-year-old Kaden Webster heard about the food drive, he was excited to help. But he wanted to do more than just drop off a couple of cans in a box. So with the help of his mother Connie and his friends, McKenna and Konner, Kaden started his own food drive.
They went door to door in Lexington looking for food and collected as much as they could. When we went to pick it up, this is what we saw… a garage full of boxes, bags and cans of food.
As we loaded all the food in a truck, we weighed it to see how much they had collected. The grand total… 1849 pounds… almost a ton of food. We took the food to the food pantry at the United Methodist Church in Lexington. They feed 100 families every month and were so grateful for the donation.
I’m grateful to know there are people like Kaden, Connie, McKenna and Konner out there… making a difference any way they can. I’m also thankful for everyone else who collected or donated food. Because of your generosity we were able to collect 31,000 pound of food and counting. And that will make a huge difference for people who need it. Check out more pictures below.
I just want to add that we couldn’t have made this possible wthout my good friend Tonya Adams & her daughter McKenna plus Lisa McDonald and her Daughter Konnor and son Colton. They were the legs and footwork of this operation as well. Plus all the people who donated any type of services and backed us 100% in this community whether it was a drop site, donating flyers or donations of any kind…we appreciate it. We all were excited to be a part of something that will benefit our community and be in the honor of the Skaggs family. Audra Skaggs was each of these kids Pre-K teacher and they just love her still. We were honored to do this and so excited that we filled the pantry up for the United Methodist Church of Lexington. Thank you Kaden, McKenna, Konnor and Colton. You have great big hearts and can change the world with that attitude and drive.
Big Thanks goes out to:
The Norman Transcript,
Noble Health Care,
Lexington Police Department,
The Purcell Register,
Ideal Homes,
5K Store
Larry Bacon, Afflac Agent,
and Kinko’s.