Local students hold annual ‘Trick-or-Eat’ fundraiser

This Halloween night, local community members might answer the door to a different group of “trick-or-treaters” parading around neighborhoods.

This is the second year the Century High School Interact Club will be collecting money, instead of candy, to donate to the local food bank.

The club is the high-school level of the local Rotary club.

Century High School senior Angela Forhan is the president of the club and said this past year they raised $1,270 dollars, which is equivalent to 200 backpacks for local hungry kids.

She said this year, they hope to surpass that figure.

“In Pocatello and Chubbuck, 500 backpacks go home every weekend, so that’s 500 kids who are food insecure,” Forhan said.

She said this is a growing problem, where kids are heading home on the weekends with only enough food in that backpack to feed them for one meal, but they have to ration that food to last them until the Monday they return to school.

“If they don’t have enough food to eat, usually their families are hungry as well,” she added.

Forhan said those asking for money will be wearing gray shirts with the Interact logo on it.

For more information on the club, visit its Facebook page.