October 2006: Hokies for the Hungry

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October 2006

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In this exciting episode, our hero learns an important lesson about the importance of teamwork when he and his estranged colleagues have to come together to defeat an old arch-nemesis. No, wait, that was this week's episode of Popular Sci-Fi Television Show. This month... lots of stuff happens. As usual. And it makes the month go quickly, and it also makes us want to write about it - which explains the unusual punctuality of this update.

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Section 4:
Hokies for the Hungry Food Drive

The marching band runs this project to raise food for the Montgomery County Christmas Store every year. They have two phases, one at the Maroon Effect game (this year versus Clemson) of "a can from every fan" (that's 66,233 cans) and the other being the Campus Blitz. For the past two years, Hillcrest has collected the most of any team (they let us work together because of the small number of residents) and won the grand prize of an ice cream party. How about this year? Stay tuned to find out!


Heywood Floyd: Where's Mommy? Squirt: She's gone to shopping. Holy crap, that's 212 items from Wal-Mart plus a bunch from going door to door in Foxridge.
	Quick, unload that car! Everything has to be in by midnight. Oh, and that's not a legal parking space, by the way.
Go, go, go!
	Run, Forrest, run.
Getting there...
	Jeremy is helping!
Group photo... can everybody stop moving for a few seconds?
	Me: What are you going to do with all that junk? Kari: What junk? Me: All that junk inside your trunk? Kari: ...
Meanwhile, Tory comes up with an ingenious counting system... multiplication.
	Tory looks really tall in this picture... like, I don't know, the Jolly Green Giant or something.
Table #1
	Go Tech Go!
Table #2
	Jeremy unveils the Wal-Mart receipt.
212 items for $61. Apparently off campus students don't keep vast stores of canned goods, but they are willing to give you a few bucks to get you off of their front stoop.
	Table #3
Table #4
	The 600th can makes its triumphant arrival. Yay, we won.