Youth community involvement celebrated
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Editor,
Young people in our local communities have historically supported the Ronan Bread Basket through sponsoring food drives, donating garden produce and the yield of 4-H projects.
This past holiday season offered the Bread Basket so many opportunities to be grateful for and celebrate the community spirit and volunteerism demonstrated by the students of the Ronan School District.
Dan Lake of Lake Farms generously donates potatoes to the food bank every year. This donation involves the need for some manual labor to package the potatoes and deliver them to the Bread Basket. Beginning in November, various student organizations from Ronan High school have undertaken this task making light work with many hands. These groups include Business Professional of America, Family Career Community Leaders of America, Health Occupation Students of America and Technology Students of America with Skills USA and Future Farmers of America planning to pitch in this winter. Additionally, the BPA, FCCLA as well as the National Honor Society organized food drives for the holiday season.
One of the most outstanding examples of community spirit came from Ms. Charla Lake’s sixth grade leadership class. The class set a modest goal for collecting holiday food by placing a donation basket and sign at Harvest Foods. The community response to these young people’s effort was so much more than they had even imagined and as a result they were inspired to continue the food drive through the entire holiday season resulting in 1,066 pounds of non-perishable food being delivered to the Bread Basket.
So many families benefited from the hard work and generosity of all of these young people this past holiday season. Our community should be very proud.
Leah Emerson
Ronan Bread Basket
Board Chair
