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If you happened to walk into Community Market along east Sandusky Avenue on Wednesday, Oct. 28, you might have wondered what madness you’d suddenly found yourself a part of.

Sponsored by Bellefontaine Grace Church, the annual Supermarket Sweep youth fundraising event has been going for five years now.

Over the course of two hours, the students bought about $1,700 worth of groceries off funds they had raised. They then filled nine boxes with food to donate to Lutheran Community Services and another four boxes to go to the church’s Indian Lake campus.

According to Pastor Nick Mazza, these ministries will use the items to make Thanksgiving meals for people in the community who need support and a good meal.

The Sweep included trivia contests, catching marshmallows in their mouths (one team won with a toss/catch at 62 feet!), and challenges for finding various food items throughout the store.

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