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Race for the Hungry events pull in almost $4K for food pantries

The caped crusaders in Kenosha.

North Shore Bank’s 14th annual Race for the Hungry brought in over $2,000 in groceries for Wisconsin food pantries on Wednesday, March 15, with events in Appleton, Kenosha, and Milwaukee.

Racers at El Rey Foodmart.

At El Rey Foodmart, racers collected $912.52 worth of groceries for the Milwaukee Christian Center.

Heroic representatives from Kenosha’s Grace Welcome Center donned capes and masks and gathered up $709.58 in groceries at Festival Foods for their pantry.

The racers gather with Seymour Savings and the Piggly Wiggly mascot in Menasha.

And at the Menasha Piggly Wiggly, racers picked up $815.19 of groceries for the St. Joseph Food Program.

North Shore Bank also donated another $500 to each of the pantries, for a grand total of nearly $4,000 to help fight hunger in our communities. Many thanks to Kenosha Central’s Mary Benz, Northland’s Lacee Kalepp, Mitchell Street’s Alfredo Martin, and other employees for making these exciting events happen.