The headline last month said Sarah breaks a BIG record. Our deadline was before the final figure was calculated, so we didn’t know HOW big.
It was really BIG.
Instead of the target of 24,000 pounds of food collected for the Daily Bread Food Bank, the total was a little more than 150 percent higher: 60,995 pounds.
The year before Sarah Jordan, 11, of North Leaside, had aimed for 12,000 pounds and raised 21,573.