helping the members of the greater community

Thomaston Grammar food drive pulls in record number of items

Fri, 11/22/2019 - 9:00am
And the winners are… Grades 2 and 3 collected the most food items for the food drive! (Photo courtesy Thomaston Grammar School)
Amber Taylor-Soares reveals the number of food items collected – 2199! (Photo courtesy Thomaston Grammar School)
Maddox Lowell and Addison Lincoln help load the food donations. (Photo courtesy Thomaston Grammar School)
Teamwork! Brody Douglas and Levi Murphy lug a large box of food together. (Photo courtesy Thomaston Grammar School)
Principal Ainslee Riley and representatives from the Thomaston Food Pantry sort through the donations. (Photo courtesy Thomaston Grammar School)

THOMASTON — Over the past two weeks the Thomaston Grammar School participated in a food drive to collect food items and personal care items for the Thomaston Food Pantry. Each grade pod collected items throughout the week and collected data regarding the items collected. 

The School held an assembly to reveal the total amount collected. Each group of students (Kindergarten and first grade, second and third grade, and fourth and fifth grade) presented their data to the school. They collected a record number of items – 2,199.  

The second and third grade pod collected the most items and will be participating in a special event for their efforts. Fifth graders helped to load the items into trucks. Two trucks full of items were driven to the Food Pantry and staff and parents from TGS helped to unload the items. 

“The people working at the Food Pantry were happy to receive the donations,” said TGS, in a news release. “It was a wonderful effort by students and their families and staff members to help the members of their greater community.”

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