Community School students play Santa
By PETER BOLTZ
Express Staff Writer
Students from the Community School filled a
school bus Monday with clothing, food and toys for the needy.
Children from Pat Stansberry’s third
grade class at the Community School show off some of the toys they
collected for their Holiday Baskets project. The school collected food,
clothing and new toys for the needy.
The community service project called
Holiday Baskets was headed by the school’s community service director
Bob Doyle, who also teaches American and world history.
Pat Stansberry’s third grade class
promoted the collection of new toys this year. Pupils, like Hailey Zanes,
8, and Nicole Schmiedl, 8, made signs advertising their toy drive and put
them up all over the valley.
Another part of their advertising effort
was to rally others at the Community School to contribute a new toy to
Holiday Baskets.
Doyle and Stansberry said they had
collected 150 new toys.
In addition to the toys, the school
collected about 500 pounds of food and 24 boxes of clothing. Food and
clothing were collected by high school students.
In addition to the clothing, food and toys,
a cash donation of $77.90 was collected by pupils in kindergarten through
sixth grade.
Doyle said the Holiday Baskets are taken to
the Hailey Armory, where contributions are sorted and assigned to needy
families.
