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By Marie Wakefield, KPTimes.com

The average pumpkin weighs 13 pounds. When several are stacked in a wheelbarrow, they can quickly add up. However, Kingwood High and Kingwood Park JROTC members took all of that in stride as they volunteered on Oct. 18, unloading 1,122 pumpkins from a delivery truck in less than two hours at the annual Good Shepherd Pumpkin Patch. 

β€œWithout the volunteers, we would be in a world of pain.” Kanon Gouralt, coordinator of the event said. β€œThey come, they unload the pumpkins, they honestly do anything we ask them to. They put up the tables for us, and they do it all with a smile.”

Read the rest of the story: https://kptimes.com/16723/news/jrotc-students-help-carry-load-as-14000-pounds-of-pumpkins-arrive/