Oct. 15, 2002
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Boilermaker fans can help feed the hungry and safeguard their own children while cheering on Purdue at Ross-Ade Stadium on Saturday.
The Captain's Table, made up of leaders of each Boilermaker team, is sponsoring a canned food drive to assist human-service agencies. Student-athletes will collect canned goods at four locations around the stadium. Located outside the stadium gates to the northeast, northwest, southeast and southwest, donation stations will be on fans' way to the stadium.
The donations will benefit Food Finders Food Bank, a United Way agency that distributes food and other necessities to homeless shelters, drop-in centers and other human-service agencies throughout more than a dozen counties surrounding West Lafayette.
Drop-off locations will be set up about an hour before kickoff until shortly after kickoff.
Continuing after Saturday's game through Nov. 8, a collection station will be maintained at the Athletic Ticket Office in the Intercollegiate Athletic Facility. Canned goods can be dropped off during business hours.
At the end of Saturday's game against Michigan, gatekeepers will distribute child identification kits as fans leave the stadium.
The National Child Identification Program is jointly sponsored by the American Football Coaches Association and the FBI. The kits are inkless systems for parents and guardians who want to fingerprint their children and keep that information on file in the event of a disaster or other emergency.
Fans are encouraged to ask for as many kits as they need. One kit will fingerprint one child.