Grandview Students Participate in Food Drive

By Lorrie Ham

A group of Grandview Middle School Student Council members had the chance to ride with members of the city’s police department recently to deliver the items collected during the school’s March food drive to the Westonka Food Shelf. Grandview donated 882 food items, which students collected each morning. 

“In order to get the kids excited and motivated to bring in food, we created a competition between the Morning Meeting classes,” Student Council advisor Jenny Naslund said.

Morning Meeting groups in each grade level created cartoon sculptures out of the food items they collected. The winning class in each grade won school Survivor Points.

The fifth-grade winner was Laurie Bonier’s class sculpture, “Smurf Village.” In the sixth grade, Kay Ostman Saxvik’s class won for “Sponge Bob.” “Mike” from “Monsters, Inc.” was the winning sculpture from Sarah Swedlund’s seventh-grade class. Nancy Enger’s class collected the most food items—116—while Leigh Ann Kaminski’s class had the most creative sculpture.

“GMS Morning Meetings really enjoyed collaborating together to build cartoon character sculptures using food items collected for our annual March Food Drive,” advisor Julie Taintor said. “And the student council members who helped deliver the food really enjoyed the opportunity to ride in the police cars.” 

“Thanks to everyone who participated in this year’s food drive,” Naslund added.