The Challenge: 100 Cans of Food for 100 Days of School

Students at all three celebrated their 100th day of school on Friday by holding a canned food drive to benefit the community. The Parent Teacher Association organized 100 Cans of Food for 100 Days of School, challenging students to donate 100 cans per classroom to the FoodBank of Monmouth and Ocean Counties. A truck from the Foodbank visited each school Friday morning to pick up the over 3,000 cans of food collected by students.

According to Lisa Haran, a PTA vice president at the Achison school, her first grader "was so excited about it."

She said he told her on the last day of the drive that his class only needed nine more cans to reach their goal. "I said, 'Ok, let's look in the pantry'," said Haran, who also co-chaired the event.

She credited the Super Foodtown store in Red Bank for donating paper bags to help transport the over 3,000 pounds of food collected.

Patch visited the to check out students' efforts to load the 604 cans collected by fellow students into the Foodbank truck.