Students fill Howell High School football field with food donations in 100 Yard Food Drive Challenge

Powell High School's football field was a sea of yellow Sunday, thankfully not with yellow flags, but with yellow bags filled with food collected by students that will go to New Jersey families in need. The 100 yard food drive challenge organized by the nonprofit Dermer Dreams. Each one of these students received a hundred Dermer Dreams donation bags and they needed to make a business plan to bring them here today to fill the field. Safe to say there was some successful business plans and the goal here was lofty. and a real effort by these young volunteers to collect 100,000 pounds of food. It's an amazing thing to see the youth come in and lead these type of initiatives and learn real-life skills of how to manage money and market and organize these things that we learn in the classroom and they're actually utilizing in the real world. These bags will head across the state to food kitchens, shelters, and more, but they're first filling 100 yards of gridiron, a task that in and of itself was an all-hands-on-deck effort. We are grabbing the food from everyone's cars who's donating. We're carting them over here and then going every single line, placing the bags to make it obviously look aesthetically pleasing, but also show just the impact that we did today. And even through the sweat on a chilly October day, for the students here, it's a moment of giving they say they'll never forget. I'm so excited. I was able to give my bags to my neighbors, and they all filled it with gratitude. They were so amazing. Just one word goes so far to do all this. Having such a great community to be able to come out here on a Sunday and just help my community and just be here with all my friends and know that I'm doing a good thing today. So take this field of donations as proof that when New Jersey students and the community come together, there's no goal too big, and in this case, no bag too small. Kids will step up to the plate. All you got to do is just believe in a kid and great things happen. In Howell, Jack Ford, News 12 New Jersey.