Glenn Zehr Wins Shopping Cart Race
February 21, 2012
News Release
Livingston County Farm Bureau
February 21, 2012
Contact: Teresa Grant-Quick, manager
815-842-1103
Glenn Zehr Wins Shopping Cart Race
In observance of Food Check-Out Week, February 19-24, 2012, the Livingston County Farm Bureau Young Leaders’ Committee sponsored a Shopping Cart Race. The two minute shopping cart race was held on Tuesday, February 21, 2012 at County Market in Pontiac beginning at 11 a.m. Glen Zehr, Evergreen FS, spared off with Bart Flack, Crop Production Services to see who could collect the most items in a shopping cart race. The shopper who picked up the most non-perishable food during the 2-minute time period was declared the winner. The LCFB Young Leaders purchased the items collected totaling $433.82. County Market provides a 10% discount on the purchase.
and they were donated to the Livingston County Community Food Pantry and St. Vincent DePaul Food Pantry.
Alicia Miller, Mallory Webster, and Phil Hanson, Livingston County Farm Bureau Young Leaders, monitored the race.
Kent Casson, News & Program Director, WJEZ 98.9, covered the race.
The winner of the race was Glenn Zehr with a total of
230 items, totaling $212.89.
Second place went to Bart Flack with a total of
96 items, totaling $220.93.
From January 1 until now the average American has earned enough income to pay for their year’s food supply. Now in its 14th year, Food Check-Out Week also highlights America’s safe, abundant and affordable food supply, made possible largely by America’s productive farmers and ranchers. According to the most recent information from the USDA’s Economic Research Service, American families and individuals spend, on average, less than 10 percent of their disposable personal income for food.
Livingston County Farm Bureau
February 21, 2012
Contact: Teresa Grant-Quick, manager
815-842-1103
Glenn Zehr Wins Shopping Cart Race
In observance of Food Check-Out Week, February 19-24, 2012, the Livingston County Farm Bureau Young Leaders’ Committee sponsored a Shopping Cart Race. The two minute shopping cart race was held on Tuesday, February 21, 2012 at County Market in Pontiac beginning at 11 a.m. Glen Zehr, Evergreen FS, spared off with Bart Flack, Crop Production Services to see who could collect the most items in a shopping cart race. The shopper who picked up the most non-perishable food during the 2-minute time period was declared the winner. The LCFB Young Leaders purchased the items collected totaling $433.82. County Market provides a 10% discount on the purchase. and they were donated to the Livingston County Community Food Pantry and St. Vincent DePaul Food Pantry.
Alicia Miller, Mallory Webster, and Phil Hanson, Livingston County Farm Bureau Young Leaders, monitored the race.
Kent Casson, News & Program Director, WJEZ 98.9, covered the race.
The winner of the race was Glenn Zehr with a total of
230 items, totaling $212.89.
Second place went to Bart Flack with a total of
96 items, totaling $220.93.
From January 1 until now the average American has earned enough income to pay for their year’s food supply. Now in its 14th year, Food Check-Out Week also highlights America’s safe, abundant and affordable food supply, made possible largely by America’s productive farmers and ranchers. According to the most recent information from the USDA’s Economic Research Service, American families and individuals spend, on average, less than 10 percent of their disposable personal income for food.
