PLAINWELL, Mich. (WOOD) — The high school football season kicked off Thursday morning with the Football Frenzy Tailgate visiting Plainwell High School and the launch of the annual Frenzy Food Drive.
Each week, students at the schools the Tailgate visits donate food and other items, competing to bring in the biggest amount. Each week, those items stay in their communities. In the case of Plainwell High School, the food will stay in the building with the Good Hands program .
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Good Hands started 14 years ago with three women: Donna Gorton, Del Beier and a friend of theirs, Nancy Heilig, who has since died. It’s not a typical pantry. Rather, it’s a meal program for the students.
“The first year we were delivering food, it hit me in the heart because we were delivering at one of the elementaries and a little girl came running out of her classroom and she just stopped and raised her hand and said, ‘Yes! I’m going to have food this weekend.’ That did it for me,’” Beier recalled.