Dr. G. Steven Larson, commissioner of the Northern Athletics Conference, announced the new service initiative that is being undertaken by its member institutions. "The members of the Northern Athletics Conference Student-Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC) wanted to do something together as a conference that would help in their respective communities. As a result, the NAC SAAC is initiating 'Cans Across the Conference' this year.

"SAAC is organizing the canned food drive as a community service project amongst the twelve institutions in the NAC. Each campus SAAC will be collecting cans and other non-perishable items at their school from September 29 through November 17 to benefit a local organization.

"This is an outstanding project that SAAC and all of the NAC student-athletes are undertaking. It will benefit many people."

Fall of 2006

Institution	Total Items	Organization
Concordia University Wisconsin	1,311	Benediction Lutheran Church
Wisconsin Lutheran College	1,241	Second Harvest of Wisconsin
Alverno College	1,142	Hunger Task Force
Marian College	1,088	Bethany House
Dominican University	856	Needy Local Families
Lakeland College	790	Sheboygan Food Pantry
Edgewood College	722	St. Vincent DePaul
Concordia University Chicago	508	St. Matthew's Lutheran Church Food Pantry
Benedictine University	327	Loaves and Fishes of Naperville
Aurora University	250	Hesed House
Rockford College*	132	Rockford Rescue Mission
Maranatha Baptist Bible College	76	Watertown Food Pantry
NAC Total:	8,443

*Rockford College had a campus-wide initiative going on simultaneously.