Gwinnett County schools collect more than 140,000 pounds of food in annual Friday Night Food Fight

Gwinnett County schools collect more than 140,000 pounds of food in annual Friday Night Food Fight

A food fight at a school never sounded like a good idea —until it sounded like the best idea ever.

It was 2016 and the shelves at The Pantry at Hamilton Mill United Methodist Church were empty. Perennially, August is a difficult time for food pantries and often food stock is low, if not non-existent. Susan Lang was the director of The Pantry at that time and she was not sure how she was going to keep the doors open.