State Fair project will help area food banks
Amidst the chickens on display in the State Fair Poultry Building, there's a 'classic' 1960s egg chair--part of the Good Egg Project display.
Lee Hudson, from Hudson Egg Farms in Elbridge, is coordinating the fair project, asking fair goers to sign a pledge to 'Eat good and do good every day.' For every pledge, NY egg farmers will donate a fresh egg to the Food Bank of Western and Central New York.
We should mention that when we arrived to do the story, we noticed that people were not sure how the pledging worked, so we contacted the Food Bank, which could provide more signage.
The chair looks like a giant egg, and it was attracting people of a 'certain age' who said it reminded them of the sixties. But children were drawn to its cocoon-like wrap--and parents were quick to snap pictures of still another Fair memory.
The chair is here from Joplin, Missouri, where in the aftermath of May's devastating tornado, they collected 54-thousand pledges. Hudson hopes to get at least 100-thousand at the Fair, but he's pledged up to a million.
And for this outreach effort, we give the Good Egg Project our Blue Ribbon award--and hope you'll look for them in the Poultry Building to sign the pledge, and help the hungry.
