For its first year ever Fulton Ford is collecting and donating canned good items for the KPLA Partnership Against Hunger.
Fulton Ford and the members of Westminster's Sigma Alpha Epsilon chapter will be the filling the bed of a pickup truck with the donated canned and dried goods until Nov. 24. So far, the pickup has 216 cans, but Christina VanNess, the owner of Fulton Ford, hopes to have at least 1,000 by the time they're done accepting donations.
"It's a need in the community," VanNess said. "It's a way all our employees could pitch in and we could do it together as a team."
For every donation Fulton Ford receives they will match it and donate it to the cause,
which is supporting the Food Bank of Central and North- east Missouri, according to the KPLA website.
Members of SAE are providing bags to interested residents to fill with canned goods they wish to donate and then will pick them up at the end of the day.
"We're just acting as transportation," Hunter Gomez, SAE's vice president, said.
However, the group also plans on donating canned and dried goods from active members, which will help alleviate individual fines members have accumulated. The project also helps SAE fulfill its pledge to providing community service in Fulton.
"People keep thinking we're American Pie," Presi- dent Javier Martin said. "But we like to help and that's what we're doing."
"We're trying to reestablish the fraternity name," Gomez added.
Members of the chapter have reached out to local businesses and alumni for donations, but is also accepting individual donations dropped off at the house at 315 W. Fifth Street.
Anyone interested in having fraternity members pick up donations can contact Hunter Gomez at (405) 637- 6417.