HENRICO COUNTY, Va. — Angie Hutchison serves as facility manager for Canterbury Recreation Association in Henrico’s West End.
Among her duties at the community pool and tennis facility, she also helps organize an annual food drive in honor of a 13-year-old who she knew well.
Quioccasin Middle School student Lucia Bremer was walking home with a friend after class when she was shot and killed March 26, 2021.
“In 2022, in the first anniversary of her death, we decided to honor her with acts of service,” Hutchison recalled.
That mission continues to this day.
On Saturday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., volunteers and a Feed More van will fill the association’s parking lot at 1300 Pump Road to collect canned and non-perishable donations for the 4th annual Lucia Bremer Food Drive.
Feed More requests no glass goods be donated.
Hutchison described the drive as a community-wide effort.
“I've got kids making signs. I've got people bringing balloons. People sign up to help with traffic. People sign up to help actually intake the items,” she explained.
While the circumstances are tragic, Hutchison would not describe the event as solemn.
“It's actually a very fun atmosphere, even though it's a very sad situation. But we try to make it light when we can. Lucia means light. [Her family] likes to spread the light. They like to keep her light alive. They would rather focus on how she lived than how she died,” Hutchison stated.
Lucia Bremer was a member of the organization's pool and Hutchison said she would’ve worked at the snack bar, like her brothers.
To make a monetary donation to the food drive, visit Feed More's website.
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