His limbo endeavor wasn't successful - but the Day of Caring undoubtedly was.
This year marks the Day of Caring's 25th iteration - and second at the BB&T Center - which once again succeeded in providing 300,000 meals for underserved children and families across Broward County.
"It's such a community effort, everyone coming together really making this happen," said Kathleen Cannon, the President and CEO of the United Way of Broward County. "It's an energetic day - people are working hard - and the outcome is going to be 300,000 meals for the hungry."
Every holiday season, food pantries see an outpouring of support - but they often go dry during other parts of the year. To remedy that, the Day of Caring meals were rice and pasta-based.
"This particular packing event is to last folks for all year long," said Cannon. "It really adds to the value of making sure that families have things on their shelves."
Last year's Day of Caring featured the same meals, and it was such a hit with the food banks that, for the first time ever, the United Way of Broward County decided to do it again.
"We've never repeated a Day of Caring," said Cannon. "But we had so much positive feedback from families and from the food banks about the food that they received."
There was even some Panthers gear scattered throughout the crowd of volunteers, as dozens of Panthers employees took the short elevator ride down to the arena floor and joined up with the hundreds of volunteers from across the county.
"It was really neat to look around and see people in Panthers polos packing meals and painting pots for the garden," said Lauren Simone, Executive Director of the Florida Panthers Foundation. "We were really excited to be a part of it."
Panthers employees volunteered as part of the Panthers Pledge - an internal initiative aimed at getting each employee to accrue 40 hours of service to help the community.
