yea lochdale community school!

our local school was in the paper..regarding the shoebox campaign we did this year! yea lochdale students and families for an awesome shoebox drive!!

Students share the spirit

Jennifer Moreau
Burnaby Now

Saturday, December 27, 2008

Burnaby students have gone above and beyond the Christmas call to help their communities. To pay tribute, we are dedicating this column to the many activities students have organized, from selling sushi for charity to collecting coats for kids. Often, the people helped were right in our backyards.

Kitchener Elementary

Students decorated their school Christmas tree with more than 300 pairs of new socks, which were donated to the homeless.

Nelson Elementary

The school's spirit council raised money and collected food, toys and gifts and to go to needy families in Burnaby. They also decorated a Christmas tree with new scarves, mittens, hats, school supplies and toys for the Burnaby Children's Fund. Teams competed for the "heaviest load" of food bank donations.

Clinton Elementary

Clinton students held a drive to raise money and collect items for the food bank. They collected about 22 boxes of food and raised an estimated $500. Students brought in items, and donations were collected at Christmas concerts.

Twelfth Avenue Elementary

Every year, 12th Avenue helps the school's neediest families with food and gift hampers. The school holds a food drive, and the parent advisory council pitches in to help with hampers, and gifts are bought for the families' children. The Burnaby Children's Fund throws in gift certificates so families can buy anything else they need to make Christmas even brighter.

Taylor Park Elementary

Taylor Park Elementary students exceeded their 500-item goal and collected more than 600 items for needy families. One little girl brought in 20 items, bought with her own money. Grades 4 and 5 students coordinated the effort: they decorated collection boxes, counted the donations and made daily announcements.

Brentwood Park Elementary

Students at Brentwood Park collected more than 500 coats and sweaters to help families keep warm this winter. The donations went to the Coats for Kids project. The school also collected donations for the food bank.

Cascade Heights Elementary

Grade 3 students at Cascade Heights held a penny drive for the food bank and collected $200.

"That's not bad for pennies," said principal Marilyn Kwok.

The school held a Christmas pancake breakfast on Dec. 18 and also collected donations for the food bank then. In all, 15 boxes of food were donated.

South Slope Elementary

Students at South Slope got involved in a call from a local radio station to collect toys and food for Lower Mainland families. The move was part of The Beat Cares Holiday Toy and Food Drive, an annual fundraiser organized by The Beat 94.5 FM.

Division 1 students organized the drive, which raised six boxes of toys and six boxes of food.

Brantford Elementary

Brantford students hit the streets, leaving flyers on doorknobs requesting donations of canned goods and gently used coats as part of the school's annual Jingle Bell Walk. Later, students, parents and community members returned to pick up donated items. The donations went to Stride Avenue, Edmonds and Maywood schools. To show appreciation, Brantford hosted a special community tea and Christmas carol sing-along on Dec. 17.

Stoney Creek Elementary

Stoney Creek students held a food drive to help restock the school's food cupboard. More and more families have been using the cupboard in the past three months, said community school coordinator Lawrence Ryan. Students set out to collect 1,000 items in 10 days. At Stoney Creek's annual Breakfast with Santa event, 400 items were donated. They raised 960 items, Ryan said, adding they'll meet their goal once he finishes the counting. Extra food went to Edmonds and Stride Avenue schools.

Lakeview Elementary

Lakeview students collected donations of food and new or gently used clothes for needy families as part of the school's annual Jingle Bell Walk. Students, parents and staff collected more than 80 boxes of food and more than 300 articles of clothing. They also had an "angel wall" set up at the school to help collect presents for the Burnaby Christmas Bureau.

Lochdale Community

Lochdale also had a food drive, and donations were used to create hampers for about 15 school families, whose children also received gifts, paid for by donations from groups using the school's space.

Some families also created gift shoe boxes to donate to other local families. They filled a shoe box with items and labelled them with the age and gender best suited for the gifts. More than 70 shoe boxes were stuffed and sent to Stride Avenue and Edmonds schools.

Cariboo Hill Secondary

The school's leadership class collected toy donations in support of a drive organized by JACK FM radio. They also collected several dozen coats for South Burnaby Neighbourhood House's Coats for Kids program. If that weren't enough, the class held a food drive and used items to put together five hampers for families.

The youth action committee collected money to buy toques for the homeless, and they are also selling World Vision gifts. The school's choir also performed for seniors in a nearby retirement home.

Burnaby North Secondary

The Christmas Cheer Club at Burnaby North carried on a 12-year tradition of helping during the holidays. This year, students, sponsored by teacher Clyde Sokugawa, raised more than $10,000 to donate to the Burnaby Christmas Bureau.

Moscrop Secondary

Sushi sales, a raffle and a coin drive were part of the activities students organized to raise money for family hampers. They raised enough for six hampers going to families in the Moscrop neighbourhood.

Alpha Secondary

Members of the school's Offence Club have been serving baked potatoes to the homeless in Vancouver's Pigeon Park. Students have been collecting items for the food bank, selling origami cranes, with proceeds going to charity, and raising money to adopt an animal through World Wildlife Fund. The school's knitting club made 19 scarves and donated them to a women's shelter.

Burnaby Mountain

Leadership students collected donations for Coats for Kids, and student council members have organized the school's annual food drive, which brought in enough to stuff about 80 boxes for the food bank.
© Burnaby Now 2008


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