Abby Cox , Utah’s first lady, never stopped stuffing plastic pouches with juice bags, snacks, notebooks and pens as she explained the purpose behind Thursday’s service project at the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee’s annual assembly .

The noontime project not only produced some 5,000 snack kits for Granite School District students, it gave some of the sports leaders from around the country in Utah this week a chance to see “what Utah does best and that’s serving and giving back,” Cox said.

“We love to show the world with the Olympics here that this is how we do business,” she said. “If I have a whole bunch of people together, we should put them to work. That’s my mantra. We should show up .”

The kits, intended to help prevent underserved children from going hungry durin

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