The Cornucopia Café is holding their annual fundraiser for area organization “It’s in the Bag.” Since 2016, the Grantsville restaurant has donated nearly $8000 through direct contributions by generous patrons and cash matches by the restaurant’s owners, Mike Dreisbach and Jan Russell.
“It’s in the Bag” is a weekend and holiday take-home food program for at-risk elementary school children. This program, administered by the Episcopal Church of Garrett County, seeks to fill the nutrition gap between weekly school meal programs and the dietary deficit often experienced by children over weekends and during school holidays. Each Friday, backpacks are anonymously sent home with 250 qualifying children from seven Garrett County elementary schools.
It costs approximately $280 per year to supply each child with a backpack. That’s less than $7 a week to help a student to perform well by arriving to school with a full stomach on Monday morning.
The fundraiser is running through Sunday, September 2. Donations can be made by cash, check, or credit card in person at the restaurant, or over the phone by calling 301-895-8142. Each Monday a $20 gift card winner will be selected from the previous week’s donations.
