KANSAS CITY, Mo. — There’s a bit of friendly competition going on for a good cause.
Harvesters and the Kansas City Royals have teamed up to take on Second Harvest Heartland and the Minnesota Twins to fight summer hunger in their respective communities in the Step Up to the Plate challenge from July 9-22.
According to the Step Up to the Plate site, 21 million children across the U.S. receive free or reduced-cost lunches during the school year. During the summer months, only 3.9 million of those kids continue to have access to those meals.
The competition’s goal is to raise more than $30,000 and provide 100,000 meals in each community — and beat the other city, of course.
Friendly mayoral wager
Jacob Frey, the mayor of Minneapolis, tweeted at Mayor Sly James about the challenge. James added a wager to the competition involving the two MLB teams.
Game on! How about a wager? Loser has to wear the winning team’s cap for a day and donate 300 meals to the winner’s city. Let’s #stepuptotheplate #KC and end summer hunger in our hometown! https://t.co/okn9JoDoUv @Royals @HarvestersORG
— Mayor Sly James (@MayorSlyJames) July 10, 2018
Frey accepted the bet, taunting James about looking great in Twins apparel. James figures he should just buy a Royals hat now.
You should probably go ahead and order one now: https://t.co/BUlEkDg28o #stepuptotheplate #RaisedRoyal @Royals @HarvestersORG
— Mayor Sly James (@MayorSlyJames) July 10, 2018
How you can donate
According to the Royals, you can bring non-perishable food donations to The K when the Royals take on the Twins Saturday, July 21. There will be donation barrels outside the gates.
You can also form a Step Up to the Plate team with family, friends, co-workers or neighbors. You can email fooddrive@harvesters.org and they'll get a team page set up.
You can also donate online at http://stepuptotheplate.harvestersvfd.org/
Click here to learn more about the Step Up to the Plate challenge and see how KC is fairing against Minneapolis.
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