Sullivan Center
O'Hara Assists Sullivan Center
By Mary Pat Storms
Softball players, coaches and football players took to the AOHS soccer field August 14 to lead children through wiffle ball games, sack races and water balloon tosses in celebration of Bishop Sullivan Center’s Hit-A-Ton campaign.
The Bishop Sullivan Center partners with Kansas City Royals player Billy Butler to provide food during the summer months. During the baseball season, Butler donates a ton of food for each homerun he hits. Fans can join the effort by donating to purchase a ton of food, and then have the opportunity to meet Billy Butler and his wife, Katie. Butler took a turn pitching to youngsters in the wiffle ball game, signed autographs and visited with fans for more than two hours.
AOHS students work with Bishop Sullivan Center each November for their Beans for Jeans week in which students learn more about the work of feeding Kansas City’s hungry, reflect upon their personal response to hunger as a person of faith and compete to bring in canned goods and money for the center and St. James Place. For the past several years, the O’Hara school bus has been loaded to capacity with canned goods that students deliver to the center and St. James Place.
Given this relationship, the students and staff at O’Hara jumped at the chance to help out by hosting the Hit-A-Ton celebration. Students and staff worked side-by-side with volunteers from Bishop Sullivan Center and St. James Place throughout the morning.
By Mary Pat Storms
Softball players, coaches and football players took to the AOHS soccer field August 14 to lead children through wiffle ball games, sack races and water balloon tosses in celebration of Bishop Sullivan Center’s Hit-A-Ton campaign.
The Bishop Sullivan Center partners with Kansas City Royals player Billy Butler to provide food during the summer months. During the baseball season, Butler donates a ton of food for each homerun he hits. Fans can join the effort by donating to purchase a ton of food, and then have the opportunity to meet Billy Butler and his wife, Katie. Butler took a turn pitching to youngsters in the wiffle ball game, signed autographs and visited with fans for more than two hours.
AOHS students work with Bishop Sullivan Center each November for their Beans for Jeans week in which students learn more about the work of feeding Kansas City’s hungry, reflect upon their personal response to hunger as a person of faith and compete to bring in canned goods and money for the center and St. James Place. For the past several years, the O’Hara school bus has been loaded to capacity with canned goods that students deliver to the center and St. James Place.
Given this relationship, the students and staff at O’Hara jumped at the chance to help out by hosting the Hit-A-Ton celebration. Students and staff worked side-by-side with volunteers from Bishop Sullivan Center and St. James Place throughout the morning.