On August 4, Avery Dennison set the Guinness World Record for the largest amount of school supplies donated in a 24-hour period. The company donated more than 8,500 pounds of school supplies to an in-need New York City school, shattering the record requirement of 1,102 lbs., 5 oz.

To establish the record, students from Adolph S. Ochs School and Academy lined up at about 9 o’clock in the morning to stuff a full-size school bus with the donated school supplies as part of the celebration. The feat was witnessed by an official Guinness World Record adjudicator, who verified that the attempt adhered to the strict guidelines of the record category, and presented Avery Dennison with a certificate documenting the new world record.

“I am so proud of what we accomplished:be a political statement," Handford writes. "That is, until I realized the family that owns Publix donated nearly a million dollars to a platform that I strongly oppose."

Typically, Publix, which is based in Lakeland, Florida, is ranked among the state's most beloved — and most valuable — companies. Floridians have a tendency to defend the supremacy of Publix sub sandwiches as one would defend their grandmother's cooking. But after news broke in July that Jenkins Barnett had donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to the Drug Free Florida committee, pot activists erupted online.

In November, Floridians will vote on Amendment 2, which would legalize medical marijuana statewide.

Jenkins Barnett, 59, was reportedly Publix's largest shareholder as of June. She spent years running the company's charity wing, where she helped the