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Students Government Association (SGA), along with help from a variety of clubs and teachers, worked long and hard throughout the month of November to collect different items ranging from canned vegetables to gift cards for the
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difference in the lives of many underall of the collected items to families in pating families in the community reing dinner, a week’s worth of groceries
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The ‘Big Red Bus’ visits the Bay Future Medical Practitioners hold blood drive to support various local hospitals. Story on Page 11
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goal was to collect enough food for
Season of giving Holidays prompt students to be more charitable and generous.
Nascimento said she was extremely happy to reach their goal and help so “It’s so awesome that we raised enough items to give back to so many fa m i l ies,” that if we don’t collect enough, there will be some families that won’t receive any help, and it’s really great that no one will have that problem
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- Anya Berry said she feels her experience sponsible for overseeing collections, pre- with the drive has impacted her personparing the bags and organizing distribu“Since I was in elementary school I “It’s a lot of work to plan everything, have donated to or been directly involved but I feel so rewarded in the end, because I know all the families really need our out families in our community has been help and it makes a huge impact on them “It touches my heart to see these families
Members of SGA stayed after school multiple days to help sort food and pack the bags, in addition to collecting items “It made me feel really proud to be able to contribute to such an amazing -
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make these families happy and do my
Schlussel contributed to the drive by In order to gather the necessary items collecting and sorting the hundreds of - for the drive, SGA enlists the help of all a certain item and is given a goal amount “It felt so rewarding seeing how happy “It’s so great that everyone at school all the families were to receive the food,” ing to help the families last year and I wanted to try and make a bigger differ- school is so big, I love seeing everyone Berry said that over the years she has come together to make a huge difference has learned how much of an impact she ful at times, the payoff makes it all worth it, because it was all about helping those dent and senior Amy Gallagher said she makes me feel extremely grateful for - feels great knowing that Best Buddies are afraid to ask for help, and it’s really pick up their food, getting to see the look on their faces knowing that for a week bers, and we thought that with so many they won’t have to worry about putting members we could pull everyone together as a can of soup makes a huge difference to make a big difference for people in our to a family who can’t afford to put food
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ARTS & eNt. Year in review 2016 brings changes to popular culture.
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