On Saturday, April 18, at Southside Mall, Oneonta, NY, 21 people from three organizations working in one hour shifts carefully arranged 2,394 cans of Dinty Moore Beef Stew, Chef Boyardee Beefaroni, kidney beans, sweet peas, green beans, beets, and peaches to create an adapted version of Rotary International’s End Polio Now logo—complete with vaccine droplet on the back.
Oneonta Rotary, Milford Rotary and Delta Xi Phi Multicultural Sorority, Hartwick College worked together to create the largest structure at the SUNY Oneonta sponsored CANstruction competition, an event designed to raise awareness of food insufficiency in our communities and to provide food to communities in our area.
From organizing, to shopping, to fundraising, to transporting, to building, team members created a structure that provided 2,357.46 pounds of food at a cost of $2,699.38. At the end of the competition, the structures from all the competitors were disassembled, repackaged and given to the Edmeston Community Cupboard who then distributed the food to 14 area food pantries.
In this service project, many hands made light work and Oneonta Rotary offers their thanks to the donors and to Hannaford Pharmacy and Grocery for their help in ordering and gathering all of the food needed. And thank you to all the organizations who did the work to create and build our structure—winner of the “Most Cans Award.”
