MONTICELLO, NY — This Thanksgiving, Monticello High School helped 125 families in the community enjoy a delicious Thanksgiving meal.
As we have for well over 30 years, students, …
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MONTICELLO, NY — This Thanksgiving, Monticello High School helped 125 families in the community enjoy a delicious Thanksgiving meal.
As we have for well over 30 years, students, faculty and staff worked together to raise enough money to purchase these meals from our local ShopRite.
The United Way provided us with the families, and collections began at the beginning of November and concluded the Monday before Thanksgiving.
The food drive chairs—Megan Bastone, Alexandra Cushing and Jessica Young—worked under the guidance of their advisor, social studies teacher Mary Ellen Hurley. Each morning, the students collected the envelopes from zones located around the school, and then met after school every single day to count the totals for each class. Finally, these totals were tallied to see which zones collected the largest amount.
In addition to collections throughout the building, we received donations from several businesses in Monticello. This includes Gold Dental ($100) and The Beer Store ($500). This friendly competition creates much excitement when the daily totals were announced each day, and even more excitement when the grand totals were announced during the assembly.
In anticipation of the assembly, the entire food drive committee worked diligently to build the towers of food—a creative way to display to the entire school the outcome of their community service.
The second- to fourth-place zones won fruit snacks to share.
This year’s winning zones were:
In fourth place, helping three families, is Mrs. Schombs’ zone with a total of $214.35.
In third place, helping seven families, is Mr. Nielsen’s zone with a total of $546.42.
In second place, helping eight families, is Mr. Cellini’s zone with a total of $568.11.
And in first place, helping nine families, is Mrs. Ferris’ zone with a total of $646.68.
This zone earned a breakfast prepared by our building’s administrators. This will take place in January and will include the winning zone in the Monticello High School annual toy drive.
During the toy drive. hallway zones will compete again as they collect and share with the community. Collections began on December 4.
Anyone wishing to donate should email mhurley@k12mcsd.net with any questions.
If you or someone you know needs help with gifts this holiday season, call the United Way at 845/794-1771 to be added to its list of families.
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