Participants will be greeted by Fresno State Bulldogs football coach Tim DeRuyter at The Big Fresno Fair’s Feed the Need Food Drive on Wednesday.

DeRuyter will be greeting donors from 11:30 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. In addition to DeRuyter, his wife Kara, Fresno State First Lady Mary Castro and Victor E. Bulldog III will be greeting guests.

Participants who donate 12 or more cans of food will get a free admission ticket to the fair and the first 50 people donating 12 or more cans will get a pair of tickets to Saturday’s home football game against Tulsa.

The food will be added to a food drive held during the fair from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. on Oct. 13 at the Fairgrounds.

The initiative has collected more than 580 tons of food over the past seven years and 271,688 lbs of food during the Feed the Need event in 2015.