Belmont secondary students are getting ready to hit the pavement and knock on doors to make sure no one in the community gets overlooked.

The schoolB次元官网网址檚 annual food drive, 10,000 Tonight, which traditionally takes place around Christmastime, is getting a spring revival this year. Belmont students are partnering with their Sooke counterparts at Edward Milne Community School to canvas their communities for non-perishable food items to donate to the local food banks.

The Belmont students will be blanketing the West Shore on Thursday night (April 21), with their collected items earmarked for the Goldstream Food Bank.

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Rasmussen and Stubbs, along with Graeme Sieben and Markus Meyer, are Grade 10 Belmont leadership students helping organize this weekB次元官网网址檚 food drive, which will look a little different than past efforts.

Instead of just accepting donations one night, there are bins set up inside the main entrance for students and staff at the schools, as well as the community, to drop items off all week. The goal is for Belmont students alone to collect more than 10,000 items.

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While there is a goal, Rasmussen added, the drive is really about collecting as much food as possible for the food bank.

With the big push on Thursday from 5 to 9 p.m., Sieben said students will be out across all of the major communities in the West Shore. The school itself will be buzzing during this high-energy event and keeping that energy going is why heB次元官网网址檚 back volunteering.

Meyer said that energy and this food drive in particular B次元官网网址渂rings the school together B次元官网网址� The entire community rallies behind it.B次元官网网址� If residents know theyB次元官网网址檙e not going to be home, he added, they can leave items to be collected at their door.

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katie@goldstreamgazette.com