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(Photo courtesy CINDY KIEBERT) Each year, Hope Elementary holds a food drive — which is a friendly competition between the classes — to help the Christmas Giving Program at the Hope Memorial Community Center. These five sixth-grade advanced math students counted and kept a wall graph up-to-date weekly. On Thursday, Dec 15, they loaded both cargo holds on Bill Everhart’s bus plus a few seats with the many boxes holding 1,181 nonperishable food items. Pictured, from left, are Natalie Fluckiger, Nathan Shelton, Jordan Derby, Emliy Myers and Paige Valliere.