Food Drive and Teddy Bear Toss a Success

The Gift of Kindness accomplished two main projects during the months of November and December.
We had our food drive and teddy bear toss on the night of December 4, 2009. It was a very successful day as we donated over 140 teddy bears and many many tubs of food to the local Christmas Cheer Board.
For the food drive, we split up our class into four groups. We had helpers from the school drive around town so we could keep dropping food off that we collected into the back of their trucks. We each took an area of town. The food drive started at 3:30 and finished at 6:00pm.
We planned our teddy bear toss to take place at the hockey game against Birtle on Dec.4 starting at 8:30pm. Our class all worn white Husky jerseys to show that we were all supporting the Gift of Kindness project. Teddy bears were to be thrown at the first Hamiota Huskies goal. It was not long before teddy bears covered the ice. Our class came out on to the ice to collect all the teddy bears into garbage bags. We then had to take the teddy bears back to the school to dry off. With the amount of all the teddy bears and food, we could barely walk into the student council room. The amount that we had collected was overwhelming.
The Monday after the hockey game, our class got together to organize the food and teddy bears. We personally loaded a truck and went to donate it to the Cheer Board. We felt a great amount of gratitude as we handed the food and teddy bears over. We put smiles on many people's faces this Christmas season.
We would like to thank the businesses that allowed us to keep collection boxes in their buildings. Also, a big thank you to all of the people that donated food and teddy bears. We felt that the food drive and teddy bear toss was a huge success for our Gift of Kindness project.