Here is another story from the front lines of kids stepping up to the plate to help those in need…
Last Saturday Carolyn and Dakota, both black belts from Aptos Martial Arts Academy, broke 110 boards in the fight against hunger. Family, friends, and supporters pledged money per board with a large portion of the funds going to Second Harvest Food Bank. Students at Aptos Marital Arts all got together prior to the event and decorated all of the boards that Carolyn and Dakota were going to break. The art on the boards was a mix of encouragement, thanks, dedications to people and supporters, as well as struggles that they wanted to be symbolically broken through. Twin Lakes Church Pastor, René Schlaepfer showed up to support Carolyn and Dakota. A special board was saved for him to break at the very end of the event.
After the event Dakota expressed his thanks, “I knew that for every board we broke we could potentially save a life. I feel so blessed to have received the support we did. It is really awesome. Thank you all very much!”
This “Board Break-a-Thon” raised 6,560 Pounds of food!
Although these pounds aren’t being counted specifically towards Grind Out Hunger‘s food drive we wanted to highlight these two, seeing as they are two kids with big hearts. These pounds will be going toward Twin Lakes Church’s goal of 1 MILLION pounds for this seasons Second Harvest Food Banks Holiday Food Drive.
We are excited to have Twin Lakes Church supporting Second Harvest Food Bank – Santa Cruz in such a big way.
Thank You Carolyn and Dakota for your dedication and support.
Carolyn and Dakota both teamed up to break boards in the fight against hunger.
110 boards were broken and 6,560 Pounds of food were raised.
Twin Lakes Church Pastor, René Schlaepfer, breaks a board at the end of the event.
Carolyn and Dakota Jones
