Cereal drive proves to have a domino effect with T.C. Cherry students

BOWLING GREEN, Ky. – What’s better than giving thousands of boxes of cereal to hungry children in our community? Well, if you ask the students at T.C. Cherry Elementary in Bowling Green, the answer is knocking them all down, domino style!

More than 4,500 boxes of cereal were collected in this year’s Guarantee Pest Control cereal drive.

The boxes were collected by students or at drop off points throughout the community.

Organizers say the annual effort offers something more to the students than just a breakfast.

India Blankenship with Guarantee Pest Control says it teaches the kids “to be young leaders, to give back to the community, and whether they know it or not, they’re helping the classmate right beside of them, bringing in this cereal, that it could possibly go right into their backpack.”

A T.C. Cherry student also weighed in on the event.

Jase Tomes, a fifth-grade student, says, “It’s kind of nerve wracking being just a kid, knocking down all of this because you’re not sure you’re going to mess up or if you’re just going to get it right.”

Tomes won the opportunity to knock over the boxes because he collected the most cereal in this year’s drive.

The cereal will be distributed throughout Bowling Green and Warren County with programs such as ones that will also provide free backpacks.