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The cup was running over Saturday at Food on Foot’s annual Easter meal box distribution.

Families came to the 1 Berkline Drive location to pick up food for Easter, as well as Easter boxes for the Sunday meal, plus children received baskets with toys and candy. Even the adults got a basket with food and snacks.

Among the volunteers at Saturday’s distribution were Green for Life employees and one of the kids’ Sunday School classes from First Baptist Morristown. Also, regular volunteers, such as Dianne Addington and Lois McCoy among others, were helping give the food boxes away.

“It makes really happy, I feel like I’m doing something for other people,” sixth-grader Colt Wilder said.

The food boxes contained enough food to last around a week, including a meat (ham or Spam/Treet canned meat), along with vegetables and a gallon of milk.

“Our supplier couldn’t get the hams this year,” Food on Foot Founder/Executive Director Carolyn Jarnagin said. “The hams were $15.99 each in the store and we couldn’t pay that. The ones who didn’t get hams were given Treet and Spam for sandwiches.”

Jarnigan said that she started with nothing when Easter came along.

“We’d make a few baskets, then a few more and ended up with a little over 600 baskets,” she said. “We also took 100 to 200 baskets to each nursing home (see accompanying story) and they’re all stuffed. They are loaded and running over.

“Everything just came together,” Jarnagin said.

The food boxes were packed by Morristown-Hamblen West’s Beta Club and the Trojan football team. Students from both organizations received service hours required for Walters State Community College or for scholarships. Scott McMinn of younglife ministries puts the volunteer time together.

“It was just wonderful that they wanted to come here,” Jarnagin said. “They just come and work their hearts out. They were the ones who made sure that the people had a great box for Easter.”

Food on Foot’s mission exists to help those with food insecurity. The organization distributes food bags to some students in Hamblen County schools each weekend. To donate, mail a check to P.O. Box 2129, Morristown, TN 37816 or call 865-566-5778.