{"id":61070,"date":"2025-12-16T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelaker.ca\/?p=61070"},"modified":"2025-12-16T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T14:00:00","slug":"gpv-school-community-delivers-big-food-donations-to-christmas-express","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/?p=61070","title":{"rendered":"GPV school community delivers big food donations to Christmas Express"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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FALL RIVER:<\/strong> A local school community is being praised for a major show of generosity and organization after collecting and shipping off more than 2,300 food donations to the Lions Christmas Express for community distribution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The two-week food drive at Georges P. Vanier Junior High was a school-wide effort, with Grade 8 food and nutrition students playing a leading role from start to finish.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the weeks leading up to the drive, students created informative posters and visited Grade 6 and 7 classrooms to promote the initiative and educate peers about food insecurity in Nova Scotia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once the drive was underway, the Grade 8 students took on daily responsibilities that mirrored a real-world food bank operation.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Students work together in the food collection. (Submitted photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

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Students collected classroom donations, checked items for expiry dates and damaged packaging, counted and recorded totals on a tracking bulletin board, and sorted food by type into designated bins.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effort culminated this week when members of the Lions Xmas Express arrived with four vehicles to collect the donations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Students helped load the cars before the food was shipped off for distribution within the community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Support throughout the project was provided by SchoolsPlus Student Support Worker Karri Verge, who worked closely with students during the planning, education, and collection stages of the drive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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There was lots of food to be sorted by the students thanks to the generous community. (Submitted photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Bags and more bags of food to be counted and sorted by the students before being picked up by the Lions Xmas Express staff. (Submitted photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

The initiative also extended beyond shelf-stable food items.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Students involved in the school\u2019s after-school Kitchen Brigades cooking program prepared more than 25 litres of homemade soup, which was frozen and included for distribution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Organizers say the project not only helped meet an immediate community need, but also gave students hands-on experience in teamwork, food safety, logistics, and social awareness \u2014 lessons that will last well beyond the final donation count.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lockview High student council will also be holding a food drive this week for the Xmas Express. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

(Information in this story was provided to The Laker News)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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FALL RIVER: A local school community is being praised for a major show of generosity and organization after collecting and shipping off more than 2,300 food donations to the Lions Christmas Express for community distribution. The two-week food drive at Georges P. Vanier Junior High was a school-wide effort, with Grade 8 food and nutrition […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":61072,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,957],"tags":[108,2,177,368,3001,1680,1360],"class_list":["post-61070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-news","tag-christmas","tag-fall-river","tag-food-drive","tag-georges-p-vanier-junior-high","tag-gpv","tag-holidays","tag-lions-xmas-express"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61070\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/61072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}