For the past 12 years, Food For The Hungry has challenged Knox County high schools to compete for the Stanley Can Award, given by Mount Vernon Nazarene University. The school that donates the most food items per student to the Food For The Hungry drive wins the Stanley Can and keeps it at their school for the next year. The top student from each school will also be recognized.

Students are also invited to watch MVNU and Kenyon basketball on Friday, Dec. 7, and Saturday, Dec. 8. Friday games will be at 6 and 8 p.m. at MVNU, and Saturday games will be at 4 and 6 p.m. at Kenyon. Other teams include Ohio Christian University and University of Michigan-Dearborn. The Stanley Can winner will be announced right before the 8 p.m. MVNU game on Friday.

Representatives from each of the Knox County schools are asked to keep a running tally of items collected as well as total number of students and turn numbers in at the end of the competition. For the past eight years, the Knox County Career Center has won the award. Will KCCC come away a winner this year, or will another school step up to the challenge?

In the end, the Knox County community will be the winner because we are all fighting the common enemy of hunger. All food items collected by high schools during the Food For The Hungry Stanley Can competition stay in the community in which they were given.