This year\u2019s 10,000 Tonight Food Drive almost reached 11,000 cans of collected goods!<\/p>\n
Students from Penticton and Princess Margaret secondary schools collected a combined total of 10,822 non-perishable food items, plus cash donations, for The Salvation Army food bank in their annual door-to-door canvass.<\/p>\n
Andrea Devito, vice-principal at Penticton Secondary School, said students and organizers are delighted by the response. \u00a0\u201cOne resident gave the canvassers $60 and asked that they go and purchase as much food as possible with the money, which they did,\u201d Devito said. \u201cThis in itself was a learning experience, as the students had to try to stretch $60 as far as it could go, which is of course difficult to do.\u201d<\/p>\n
Devito said as much as the purpose of 10,000 Tonight is to support those in need in the community, students also benefit. \u00a0\u201cIn the process, they gain a great sense of purpose and generosity, particularly when the food delivery occurs the next day,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs an educator, I felt so proud of all of those kids for being so \u2018all in\u2019 on a cold, dark winter evening.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n Richelle Brown, a Grade 10 student at Pen-Hi, said this marked the first time she has helped with the food drive.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s just the fact that I could help other people in the community who don\u2019t have as much,\u201d Brown said. \u201cYou get a good feeling after you volunteer, so I thought this would be one of those times when you could help someone during the Christmas season.\u201d<\/p>\n Tracie Senger, an education assistant at Pen-Hi, has been helping with the food drive for several years. This year, she was among the crew packing and sorting the incoming donations.<\/p>\n \u201cI like that it\u2019s not only the community of the school, but the community itself that\u2019s all happening together and happening for a really good cause,\u201d she said. \u201cThat\u2019s inspiring.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This year\u2019s 10,000 Tonight Food Drive almost reached 11,000 cans of collected goods! Students from Penticton and Princess Margaret secondary schools collected a combined total of 10,822 non-perishable food items, plus cash donations, for The Salvation Army food bank in their annual door-to-door canvass. Andrea Devito, vice-principal at Penticton Secondary School, said students and organizers […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2252,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"location":[],"class_list":["post-2251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n