Wrestling With Hunger begins!

After almost two years of planning our 20 Wrestler - 3 Day - 1 World Record - Fill the Food Bank “Wrestling With Hunger” event started today at 2pm.

We held an opening ceremony of sorts when we introduced all twenty wrestlers one-by-one into the ring then posed for photos from the press.   We had to quickly empty the ring and the first match began.

As of this writing, we have (I would guess) 200lbs of food which has been brought into the venue.  Our good friends at “This Wrestling Life” dropped off a few bags and community leaders Sandy and Cathy Burpee also added to the growing stack.  Heather Scott from SHARE was also at the opening and set up a display booth highlighting all the good works her organization does in our community.

The wrestlers have taken over one of the change rooms which is our “green room” we have tables of food setup and a couple of TVs where video games and old wrestling videos / DVDs are being viewed.

A rotating schedule is not in place so some of the wrestlers are sleeping, others are relaxing and others are wrestling.  Our team of volunteers are working to keep everyone on schedule; the website updated and fans informed as to what is going on.

We have had over 100 people come in and out over the first 4 1/2 hours. Some are perplexed, some are curious, some are fans and some are now new fans.  All of them are told what the event is about and encouraged to return with cans of food for the food bank.

We are having a blast!  Hopefully you will check us out and make a donation or ten.