Students at Crowsnest Consolidated High School participated in their annual two-week food drive from December 6th to 17th, collectively bringing in a little less than 700 non-perishable food items for the Crowsnest Pass Food Bank Society.
“We had really good student participation this year,” said Erin Cole, who teaches English and Film Studies at CCHS. “The kids had a lot of fun.”
This year, the food drive was set up as a competition between classes, as a way to get students more excited and involved in the effort.
Students from the school’s Leadership elective class were heavily involved in the food drive, collecting daily tallies for each class and posting the results in the school’s library.
Paper candy canes were stuck to the library window in order to represent the total amount of food each class had raised so far, with one candy cane representing five food items.
“That way, all the classes could track their progress,” said Cole.
As of Thursday, December 16, all of the classes combined had accumulated approximately 675 food items.