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Nearly $2,600 raised in walk to fight hunger
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| Pam Kelly (third from left) gets her CROP Walk badge stamped at one of the check-in points during the three-mile CROP Walk in Keokuk Sunday afternoon. |
By Steve Dunn/Gate City Managing Editor
More than 100 persons walked three miles in Keokuk Sunday to raise money to fight hunger both locally and abroad during the annual CROP Walk.
The latest tally shows that $2,573 was raised by people and students from 10 churches and schools, with All Saints Catholic Church of Keokuk collecting the most, $584. The total raised Sunday is about 10 percent more than last year, according to Doug Atterberg.
Other groups represented Sunday include the United Presbyterian Church, First Baptist Church, New Beginnings, Trinity United Methodist Church, First Christian Church, St. Johns Episcopal Church, First Lutheran Church, Cardinal Stritch and Keokuk Middle School.
This year's route was changed from Main Street and the riverfront to a course starting and ending at Rand Park with the Keokuk National Cemetery as the midway point.
Twenty-five percent of the money raised will be donated to the food pantry at the Community Action Agency in Keokuk. The rest of the money will be given to Church World Service, national sponsor of the CROP Walk.
Last year, more than $520,000 was raised in 110 Iowa communities during CROP Walk events. Two events raised more than $30,000: Muscatine, $36,815, and the Iowa side of the Quad Cities, $31,275.
Some 267 people participated in the first CROP Walk in Keokuk in 1974, according to Atterberg. That year, the participants started at the top of Anschutz Hill , the beginning of River Road, and walked 10 miles to the ballpark in Montrose.
When CROP started in 1947, the name was an acronym for the Christian Rural Overseas Program. Its primary mission was to help Midwest farm families share their grain with war-ravaged Europeans and Asians after World War II. In some Church World Service/CROP regions, CROP has come to mean Communities Reaching Out to People.
The first CROP Walk was held on Oct. 17, 1969, in Bismarck, N.D., when 1,000 people raised $25,000 to help stop hunger. Today, 2,000 communities across America sponsor CROP Walks annually. This year, CROP Walks will share more than $3.5 million with food banks, pantries, community gardens and other local efforts.
Church World Service is a cooperative ministry of 36 Protestant, Orthodox and Anglican denominations that provide self-help and development, disaster relief and refugee assistance in more than 80 countries. This year, Church World Service through CROP Walk will help provide building materials, blankets and cooking oil to more than 138,000 people on the Thailand-Burma border.
The latest tally shows that $2,573 was raised by people and students from 10 churches and schools, with All Saints Catholic Church of Keokuk collecting the most, $584. The total raised Sunday is about 10 percent more than last year, according to Doug Atterberg.
Other groups represented Sunday include the United Presbyterian Church, First Baptist Church, New Beginnings, Trinity United Methodist Church, First Christian Church, St. Johns Episcopal Church, First Lutheran Church, Cardinal Stritch and Keokuk Middle School.
This year's route was changed from Main Street and the riverfront to a course starting and ending at Rand Park with the Keokuk National Cemetery as the midway point.
Twenty-five percent of the money raised will be donated to the food pantry at the Community Action Agency in Keokuk. The rest of the money will be given to Church World Service, national sponsor of the CROP Walk.
Last year, more than $520,000 was raised in 110 Iowa communities during CROP Walk events. Two events raised more than $30,000: Muscatine, $36,815, and the Iowa side of the Quad Cities, $31,275.
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When CROP started in 1947, the name was an acronym for the Christian Rural Overseas Program. Its primary mission was to help Midwest farm families share their grain with war-ravaged Europeans and Asians after World War II. In some Church World Service/CROP regions, CROP has come to mean Communities Reaching Out to People.
The first CROP Walk was held on Oct. 17, 1969, in Bismarck, N.D., when 1,000 people raised $25,000 to help stop hunger. Today, 2,000 communities across America sponsor CROP Walks annually. This year, CROP Walks will share more than $3.5 million with food banks, pantries, community gardens and other local efforts.
Church World Service is a cooperative ministry of 36 Protestant, Orthodox and Anglican denominations that provide self-help and development, disaster relief and refugee assistance in more than 80 countries. This year, Church World Service through CROP Walk will help provide building materials, blankets and cooking oil to more than 138,000 people on the Thailand-Burma border.
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