Over the next few weeks, the sixth grade will be coordinating a school-wide food drive for St. Ann's Soup Kitchen on Dixwell Avenue in Hamden. The Soup Kitchen hands out about 200 bags of groceries every other Friday so families can prepare healthy meals at home. The sixth grade students serve
lunch at St. Ann's each Monday, and the director of the soup kitchen asked us to help gather food for our neighbors in need.
On Mon., Dec. 3, our sixth graders will deliver a collection box to each homeroom. We are asking students in each grade to bring in a specific item.
Kindergarten: Box or package of dry pasta
MAG: Cold cereal (medium-large boxes) or hot cereal (instant oatmeal, cream of wheat, etc.)
Third: Bag of rice or box of instant potatoes
Fourth: Canned tuna or salmon
Fifth: Boxed baking mix (Bisquick)
Sixth: Canned pasta sauce (bottles may break)
Seventh: Canned soup
Eighth: Canned fruit (pears, peaches, etc.)
Ninth: Canned vegetables (green or baked beans, corn, tomatoes, yams, carrots, peas, etc.)
Faculty/Staff: Canned beans (black, kidney, garbanzo, pinto, white, etc.)
If each person brings in two boxes or cans of the assigned item, we will help St. Ann's fill all 200 bags!
Our sixth graders will collect the boxes on Mon., Dec. 10. We will organize the bags and deliver them to St. Ann's for distribution later that week.
Thank you so much for your help with this project. Please contact Deb Riding at driding@footeschool.org if you have any questions or concerns.
check or cash) must be returned by Fri., Nov. 30, to Brad McGuire.