Local Workers Use Cans to Help Charity

Feb 27, 2010

Erin Stevenson, KOMU TV-8

JEFFERSON CITY - Teams of engineers and architects took on hunger Saturday by building sculptures out of canned goods.

Can-struction workers built the art from donated goods, as part of the 12th annual can-struction mid-Missouri competition.

The theme of this year's competition was "tools of the trade." Teams built dump trucks, wheelbarrows, and even a hammer and nails. They used more than 9,000 cans to build the five sculptures. The food bank will get all of the canned goods next week.

"I look at the food before I look at the sculpture," Peggy Kirkpatrick of the Central Missouri Food Bank said. "I get so excited about the food because I know who's going to get it. I see the kids, I see the families, I see the elderly that will use that food and be so thankful."

Judges awarded prizes Saturday, but one important award is still to come. The people's choice award goes to the team earning the most food donations.

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