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Posted: Saturday, 31 October 2009 1:10PM
High schools lobby Guinness Book for record
Bob Roberts Reporting
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CHICAGO (WBBM) -- Students from Glenbrook North and Glenbrook South High Schools are asking the Guinness Book of World Records to recognize a new standard for the biggest sculpture created out of food cans.
What the students assembled over a three-day period, beginning Thursday morning, was no mere pile of cans. It was intricately sculpted, showing two hands holding a can, representing the food that students from the rival schools are donating to the Northfield Township Food Pantry.
"It's a great donation from our community," said Glenbrook South junior and Eagle Scout Stephen Hansen, who needed a month to design the sculpture with assistance from two friends.
Taking the design to reality took a 12-hour day Thursday, seven hours of work Friday and six hours Saturday.
"We put out the word to the student body, and several neighbors and family, and it's just been a great community event," Hansen said.
And administrators from the two schools said it was just the kind of event needed to build cooperation among students from the rival schools.
"We just said we were looking for some new ideas to bring cans in for the food drive," said Glenbrook South Assistant Principal Jim Shellard, who said pantry volunteer Bob Dunne provided the spark that breathed new life into an annual ritual by suggesting an attempt on a world record.
Dunne said it is timely, because in the past year, the number of families receiving assistance has jumped from 260 to nearly 530, straining the pantry's ability to help.
He beamed as the sculpture approached the 60,000-can mark. He said it turns a shortage into an immediate, but pleasant, problem. Now, he said, the pantry will have to rent extra storage space.
"Throughout the winter, into next year now, each family is going to be able to take an extra bag full of vegetables and fruits and soups, so it's a great cause," he said.
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