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Vol. 71 No. 11 | March 11, 2020 southphillyreview.com
Spreading the love at Christopher Columbus Charter School By Mark Zimmaro SOUTH PHILLY REVIEW
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That’s Nuts! Christopher Columbus Charter School third-grader Evelyn Bryson (left) and second-grader Anastasia Pantsios were part of the school’s effort that collected more than 5,000 pounds of peanut butter for Philabundance’s Spread the Love campaign. Serving Philadelphia, Montgomery and Bucks
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hey were looking for a fun and uplifting activity. And they were hoping to feed the hungry. So why not just do both? Some ideas come together even better than a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. For the last four years, Christopher Columbus Charter School eighth-grade student Jenna Thompson and her mother, Robin, have been volunteering with Philabundance, boxing up food to send to families that need it. Last year, they joined Philabundance’s Spread the Love campaign, which provides peanut butter and jelly sandwiches to kids in need. The duo had personally helped raise 765 pounds of peanut butter with the help of Martin LLC, where Robin works as a paralegal. This year, they wanted to take it a step further. “I asked my daughter if she wanted to try to run this again but to include the school,” Robin said. “From there, it just kind of grew. I loved seeing all the kids get involved in it.” Jenna is the student body vice president at the school and helped rally the student body for the massive food drive effort. She and her classmates created and hung posters in the school hallways and passed around fliers to help promote the event. The jars of peanut butter started rolling in. On March 4, all the hard work came to fruition as the two Christopher Columbus Charter School campuses faced off in a competition to see who collected more peanut butter donations over the last month. Jars of peanut butter stacked high and wide across tables at both campuses with a grand total of 5,414 pounds of peanut butter collected between the two campuses, including the employees at Martin See PEANUT BUTTTER, page 10>>
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