As part of an annual tradition, West Shore students continued to do their part to help the community.
Students across the West Shore and Sooke hit the streets Wednesday for the 10,000 Tonight food drive. The effort at Royal Bay Secondary in Colwood saw students map out routes, solicited volunteer drivers and convinced more than 300 volunteers to come out for what has become an annual affair.
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The program is designed to allow young people to develop a sense of community and social awareness that will stay with them for a lifetime. They learn about living as part of a collective, said Solsberg, and what that means in terms of taking responsibility for helping to make that collective a better place.
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Carson Loughridge, one of the Grade 12 students heading up the 10,000 Tonight food drive, said the leadership program is a great way of learning to think of yourself as part of a greater whole.
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Maddie Morrison, another of the leadership groupB次元官网网址檚 organizers for the event maintained that she has become convinced that there is no higher calling than to help others.
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Students from Belmont Secondary and Edward Milne Community school in Sooke also participated in the event. Items collected on the West Shore went to the Goldstream Food Bank and those collected in Sooke stayed in that community, give both food banks a much needed boost right before the holiday season.
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