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Food bank gears up for holidays with new drive BY TARYN GOMULINSKI THE GAMECOCK Harvest Hope Food Bank, a nonprofit business devoted to gathering food and distributing it to those in need, is sponsoring the Storage 2000 Food Drive Challenge in Richland and Lexington counties. The project’s organizers hope to fill a 10-foot-by-10-foot storage unit with donated nonperishable food items that will be given to the food bank. Harvest Hope wants the underprivileged to have a nutritionally balanced meal during the holidays. It will accept such items as canned food, rice, sugar, peanut butter, maca roni and cheese, and personal care items, such as toothpaste and hair brushes. According to Bread for' World, an organization dedicat ed to hunger prevention, more than 36 million Americans and 800 million people worldwide suffer every day from a lack of food. Brittany Howell, Harvest Hope spokeswoman, said the goal of the Storage 2000 challenge is to make sure everyone has food for the holidays. “The staff is really excited about distributing the food and getting others involved,” she said. The project’s aim is to collect 100 square feet of food, but “it would be wonderful to actually surpass our expectation,” Howell said. “We could use as much food as possible.” Though Storage 2000 is new this year, USC students have worked with Harvest Hope Food bank for years. USC’s Office of Community Service has placed boxes in residence halls to let students know about the food drives Harvest Hope has spon sored. To increase participation, the Community Service Office pro motes these projects on the Internet through the University 101 listserv, public service an nouncements'and fliers. “Food drives are a major com ponent of our holiday outreach program,” said Sondra Weiss, co ordinator of Community Service Programs at USC. She said the uni versity usually starts collecting items during the annual Hunger and Homelessness Awareness Week each November. T. K. Greene, manager of Storage 2000, said the project is important to her because, as a child, she went through some of the same things as the people she’s serving now. “I have been hungry. Twenty years ago, there was no place to go for assistance,” Greene said. Organizers hope to make the Storage 2000 Food Drive Challenge an annual event if its turnout is high enough. Donations can be dropped off Monday through Saturday from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. at 540 Knox Abbott Drive in Cayce and at 120 North Point Drive in Lexington. Comments on this story?E-mail gamecockudesk@hotmail.com AAAS CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 She also said 22,000 new jobs were created during the gover nor’s term and that 40,000 senior citizens benefited from the Silver Card prescription drug program, which Hodges proposed. Long, who is running for agri cultural commissioner, high lighted his agricultural back ground'- including his full-time job as a farmer. “It’s important that you con sider an individual’s back ground,” Long said. “I’ve had the leadership, marketing and pub lic experience to equip me for this office.” Long promised to help devel op a strategic plan for South Carolina farming that would lead the industry into the 21st centu ry. He said he would address the development and expansion of new agricultural industries and products. Robin Gardner, representing the Democratic secretary of state candidate, Rick Wade, said racial barriers would be broken down if Wade, a black graduate of USC, were elected. “South Carolina has never elected an African-American to the state government,” Gardner said. “And Rick Wade is the man to break this barrier.” The focus of Wade’s campaign includes helping nonprofit orga nizations and South Carolina businesses. In addition, Gardner said, Wade plans to work to stop fraudulent telemarketing, which targets senior citizens. Grady Patterson, the Democratic candidate for state treasurer, sent Travis Robertson in his place. Robertson focused on Patterson’s experience as the state’s treasurer. “Grady Patterson has served as South Carolina treasurer for 32 years, and has the experience nec essary for this office,” Robertson said. Robertson also spoke about Patterson’s support for constitu tional amendments that would im pose an annual debt limit, start a “rainy-day” reserve for borrow ing and keep the Legislature from using state retirement funds to balance the budget. Richard Eckstrom, the comptroller general candidate and sole Republican, capped off the evening. Eckstrom said in his speech that South Carolina had a budget deficit of $250 million last year. Eckstrom compared this debt to irresponsible credit-card debt. “It’s my belief that the state needs more professional financial management,” Eckstrom said. “I am a CPA, and I can provide this professional management.” Alaina Anderson, a third year broadcast journalism stu dent and vice president of AAAS, summed up the evening by stressing how important it is that students be aware of po litical issues. “We held this forum to help the student population learn more about the people running for office and the political issues that effect them,” Anderson said. Priya Sarathy, a third-year psychology student and AAAS secretary, said students need to not only learn about politics, but also to go one step further and vote. “A lot of young people feel their votes doesn’t matter,” Sarathy said. “There are 30,000 young voters in South Carolina, so if they actually do get out there and vote, their voice will be heard.” Comments on this story?E-mail gamecockudesk@hotmail.com Shootings CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 boy, remained in critical but sta ble condition Tuesday with a wound to the chest. He was shot early Monday after he was dropped off at school. With few solid clues or wit ness accounts, a task force of federal, state and local investi gators is sifting through more than 7,500 phoned-in tips. Police said they have 1,400 credible leads but would not disclose de tails. The sniper has shot eight peo ple altogether in the past week. One died on a Washington street, the others within five miles c each other in Maryland’s Montgomery County. Police be lieve the sniper is picking victims at random and firing from a dis tance with a high-powered hunt ing or military-style rifle. All the victims were cut down by a single bullet. Authorities said they were looking at a number of earlier shootings for possible links to the sniper. Among the cases is a Sept. 14 shooting outside a liquor store in Montgomery County that wounded a store employee. Arnie Zelkovitz, the owner of Hillandale Beer and Wine, said po lice interviewed him about the shooting. His 22-year-old employ ee was shot in the back. Zelkovitz said he thinks his employee was a victim of the sniper: "It just seems too coinci dental.” Ballistics tests found that the bullet that struck the boy was identical to those that killed some of the others and wounded a wom an in Virginia. 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