Canstruction story | Updates – White River Broadcasting

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CANstruction is coming up this weekend. The annual event is a food gathering effort to help local food pantries. Eight teams will be building elaborate canned food sculptures in Fair Oaks Mall on Saturday starting at 10 a.m. Gary Parker with the Starving Artists team, says this will be their 10th year participating.

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The plans for this year’s construction by the Starving Artists team are still under wraps. You can vote for your favorites by donating cans of food over the next week. After the voting is done, all of the structures will be dismantled and both the donations and the building materials will be donated to local food pantries.

You can hear more from Gary Parker with the Starving artist’s team, later this morning on AM Columbus.

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You can vote for your favorites by donating cans of food over the next week.

You can hear more from Gary Parker with the Starving artist’s team, later this morning on AM Columbus.

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You can vote for your favorites by donating cans of food over the next week. The food used in the constructions and the food donated by those voting will all go to area food banks, including the Salvation Army, Love Chapel, the Hope COmmunity Center food pantry and, new this year, food pantries at Columbus North and Columbus East High Schools.

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You can vote for your favorites by donating cans of food over the next week. Parker explains where the food that is donated and the food

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CANstruction has donated more than 240,000 cans to local food banks sicne it started 10 years ago.