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K w a l e e n Tr a d i t i o n a l Elementary students Logann Rogers, Declan Pocock, Caen Passeri, Keeley Grisdale, Dallas Ruyter and Shelby Lynn Bryan give fresh vegetables to Ollie and Richard Martens, who will be using the healthy food to feed the needy in Williams Lake.
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Kwaleen students grow vegetables for the needy Angie Mindus Cariboo Advisor A local woman who helps feed the needy was moved to tears this week due to the kindness of local children. Ollie and Richard Martens said the gift of hundreds of pounds of fresh vegetables from the gardens of the Kwaleen Traditional Elementary School students couldn’t have come at a better time Monday, as students and staff gave the volunteers school-grown pota-
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toes, beets, carrots, onions, tomatoes and cucumbers. “Isn’t this fantastic? It’s just great,” Martens said of the gift. “I’m very humbled and emotional about it. This donation will help considerably.” Martens and her husband are volunteers with the Catholic Church’s St. Vincent De Paul Society, which provides 40 to 50 low income families every Monday a bag each of what
ever fresh food they have to give, to help supplement them with healthy food between cheques. The volunteer group also provides a homemade hot soup and sandwich lunch in the park to the needy every Sunday, which the student’s vegetables will also be used for. “This will give families some healthy food,” Martens told the students, whose traditional school is slated for closure this June
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in School District 27’s initial plan. “And it will make us perservere to keep this school open -- it’s so important to teach children to think of the poor and the elderly. This is such a great school.” This latest crop of vegetables is the third year the students and staff have built and grown gardens on the property. The students plant the gardens in the spring and weed and water them
until the summer months, when families then step up to take turns keeping the vegetables in top shape during the summer months. Since the students have returned to school in September, they have shared their produce during many school functions and even just for lunches. Martens told the kids she would be happy to share in the weeding duties next year, if there was an opportunity.
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