Students raise $500 for local food bank
A group from the high school drops off a $500 check for the Clark for Food Bank.
Front row, from left to right:
Nixon King, Mr. MacDonald, Eliska Holborn, Kaelene Bare (Clark Fork Food Bank Coordinator), Reba Decker, Kaitlyn Matteson and Mr. Olmstead
Back row, left to right:
Ethan Howard, Nathan Shelton, Antonio Mayorga, Joe Bopp, Gage Ramsay, Kellie Mace,
Deb Weber (CFHS administrative assistant) and Corinne Boudousquie
Courtesy of KC MacDonald
School staff also helped making wreaths and swag, teacher says
Students at Clark Fork Junior/Senior High School raised $500 for the Clark Fork Food Bank through their wreath and swag fundraiser.
The students from the entrepreneurship and leadership classes collected tree limbs and branches over Thanksgiving break to create the largest wreaths and swags in recent memory, wrote KC MacDonald, leadership history and government teacher at the school.
“The fundraiser was created due to the great need at the local food bank,” MacDonald wrote. “Due to the generosity of our community, orders have been steadily coming in.”
School staff also got involved in the project, MacDonald said. School secretary Debbie Weber helped to make 70 bows for the wreaths and swag, and numerous students from other classes also helped make the decorations.
“This has been a wonderful experience for our students,” said Kyle Olmstead, entrepreneurship class teacher. “It is always nice to find a project that really benefits our students and community.”
More than 35 students participated in total, MacDonald said. Two students, Reba Decker and Elizbeth Holborn, did double duty, as they were in both Olmstead’s entrepreneurship class and MacDonald’s leadership class.
Both Olmstead and MacDonald said they wanted to thank everyone who helped out with the fundraiser.
Our community does so much for us,” Olmstead said. “[It is] nice to pay it forward.”