?The Linda Huckabay Thanksgiving Food Drive …?
It has been a long standing tradition at Delaney Elementary to host a Thanksgiving Food Drive to help out families in need, as well as local food banks that directly support Kennedale citizens. {{more: continue …}}?
This year the food drive began on October 30th and ran through November 10th. However, this year was a little different for the food drive.
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a resident, a parent and former staff member at Delaney ….??
Linda Huckabay, a long time Kennedale resident, parent, and retired staff member of Delaney Elementary, was passionate about the school?s Thanksgiving Food Drive. She always handled the entire food drive from organizing, sorting, and counting food items, contacting the food pantries and families, and she also created the original thermometer so students could have a visual of their progress toward the meeting the food item goal that we had set.?
Linda Huckabay
Mrs. Huckabay passed away in the spring of 2017 which greatly impacted all at Delaney, as well as in Kennedale ISD. To honor her commitment to Delaney Elementary and to the Thanksgiving Food Drive, the school named the annual food drive The Linda Huckabay Thanksgiving Food Drive. Hopefully, the tradition will carry on for many more years and continue to commemorate Mrs. Huckabay?s long time service to this campus and the district.
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collected over $3,000 worth …??
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The food goal this year was 3,000 food items. This goal was met and then exceeded before the food drive even ended.
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thanks to many ??
- A huge thank you goes to the parent volunteers who showed up most mornings to collect the food from students and load it on the carts.?
- Another huge thank you to the 4th grade Challenge Lab students for taking the carts down to the designated area and counting, sorting, and boxing up the food items.?
- Thank you to Mrs. Simmons, our counselor, for creating all correspondence going home with students to publicize the food drive and for also contacting the two local food pantries that we would be donating to.?
- And finally, a thank you to Mrs. Newton and Mrs. Watson , our office receptionist and secretary, for making our latest and greatest thermometer so our students would have a new visual to help them see our progress! It takes a true team to make all of this work, and we will forever be grateful for the support of everyone in making this event possible.?
Can?t wait until next year?s food drive.?Information for this article obtained from the Kennedale ISD Newsletter?
