The We Day Club from Spruce Ridge School in Estevan has shown their support for the Estevan Salvation Army’s Food Bank.
The club presented the proceeds from its annual We Scare Hunger campaign on Thursday afternoon to representatives of the Salvation Army.
Jody Copeland, a learning support teacher at the school who is responsible for the club, said they collected 1,131 items for the food bank. The school did not have enough buckets to place all of the non-perishable food items that were collected, and it is one of their best totals in the past four years.
“Spruce Ridge is a good place, so they always pull through for us,” said Copeland.
Every classroom was encouraged to bring at least 80 items for the food bank, and most did it.
This year there was a bit of a twist. As part of the One School, One Book campaign that saw the entire school read Charlotte’s Web, the We Day Club wanted to collect at least 1,000 food items. And since they cleared the goal, five people from the school kissed a pig Monday.
The We Day Club continues to look to make an impact. There are 35 members this year, and while they didn’t go to Winnipeg for We Day, they plan to run an Estevan-based We Day in June 2020, just like they did in 2018.
Students will run the school’s Remembrance Day service in November, and they will sing Christmas carols and help with crafts at seniors’ centres in December.
