Student Food Drive to Benefit Lincoln Senior Center

In keeping with tradition, the Lincoln School’s Student Council has again decided to run their annual food drive to benefit the Lincoln Senior Center and Thanksgiving baskets.

Student Council President Jaken Shelton and Vice President Sage Kamps explained that they decided to do the food drive again, not just out of tradition, but to create a fun way to collect food and to help the community. Kamps said the students really like helping the seniors in the community and Shelton explained it’s a way to bridge the gap between students and seniors.

Lincoln school art teacher April Erickson said the kids have a lot of fun while learning community responsibility.

For this year’s annual food drive, the students are once again doing their “Pie in the Face” celebration, with a little bit of a change. The student body decided to have students recieve the pies in their faces, instead of teachers, as had been done in previous years. The students seem to really be into the whole idea, and the teachers were happy too, since they weren’t thrilled with getting a pie to the face.

When asked how it worked, Shelton replied that each class nominated one student to receive a pie in the face, if they collected the most donated food. Each nominated student has his or her photo on a box in the hallway at the school, where students and community members alike can drop donated food. The four students with the most food in their boxes will get a pie in the face at an assembly Nov. 21 at 3:30 p.m.

Items for the donation boxes need to be non-perishable. Though Kamps said they’ll take any kind of food, the items they would most like to see are stuffing, yams, cranberries or cranberry sauce, canned fruit or vegetables, pumpkin pie mix, canned milk and cake or bread mixes.

Anyone in the community can donate items for the food drive by stopping by the school and placing those items in the student box of their choice between now and Nov. 21st.

For more information, please contact the Lincoln School at 406-362-4201.