Home Village Beacon Record PSEG workers/Mount Sinai residents vie for Guinness World Record
PSEG workers/Mount Sinai residents vie for Guinness World Record
by David Luces - March 23, 2019
Jorde Milback of Miller Place (L) was one of more than 20 volunteers helping Island Harvest in its attempt to break the Guinness World Record for the longest line of hunger relief packages. Photo from PSEG
A group of Miller Place residents and PSEG employees aimed at breaking a Guinness World Record for a good cause earlier this month.
Jorde Milback of Miller Place and a group of PSEG Long Island workers helped Island Harvest Food Bank in its attempt to break the Guinness World Record for the longest line of hunger-relief packages March 8.
Milback, alongside PSEG workers and a group from Island Harvest, placed 1,805 packages end-to-end on pallets throughout Island Harvest's Hauppauge collection and distribution center. When all the packages were placed, they measured 1,164 feet in length.
"It feels great to help my neighbors in need by volunteering at Island Harvest," said Jorde Milback, the distribution supervisor of substation maintenance at PSEG Long Island. "It was my pleasure to help Island Harvest attempt a Guinness world record and I thank PSEG Long Island for giving me and my coworkers opportunities like this to give back to our communities."
To be eligible for the world record, individuals had to ensure the packages touched each other, and once placed, they could not be touched or picked up. The attempt had to be videotaped, and a judge was on hand to oversee the three-hour attempt. Next month, a representative from Guinness will announce whether the attempt successfully beat the existing record of 1,000 packs.
"I am so proud of our partnership with Island Harvest, and our employee volunteers who help this organization pack food in its warehouses throughout the year," said Daniel Eichhorn, the president and COO of PSEG Long Island and Island Harvest board member. "We are hopeful that this attempt to break the record will be deemed a success. Either way, the people of Long Island win because of the vital services Island Harvest provides to Long Islanders every day."
The food packages used in the attempt were distributed through Island Harvest Food Bank's Kids Weekend Backpack Feeding Program, which provides supplemental food support for schoolchildren who rely on their school's breakfast and lunch programs, but often don't have enough to eat over the weekend.
"Thanks to our friends at PSEG Long Island, we not only likely broke a world record, but we were able to highlight the issue of childhood hunger on Long Island," said Randi Shubin Dresner, president and CEO of Island Harvest Food Bank in a press release. "Nassau and Suffolk counties are home to some of the wealthiest ZIP codes in the country, and there is simply no reason for any child here on Long Island, or across the U.S., to be without something as basic as food."
During the 2017-18 school year, Island Harvest's Kids Weekend Backpack Feeding Program distributed 64,000 food packs, supplementing 256,000 meals, to 1,800 kids in 29 schools across 12 school districts in Nassau and Suffolk counties.
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