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Food bank serves holiday cheer
BY KIRK BOXLEITNER kboxleitner@marysvilleglobe.com
MARYSVILLE — The Marysville Community Food Bank’s three days of Christmas basket distribution were already on track to meet or exceed the previous year’s totals by Tuesday, Dec. 20, as volunteers checked in 87 clients during the first 40 minutes of the event’s second day. “We get a lot more people during the holidays who are able to take care of themselves through the rest of the year, but when this season comes around they find themselves asking whether they can get presents for their kids or whether they want to eat for the month,” Marysville Community Food Bank Director Dell Deierling said. Deierling reported that
the first day of this year’s Christmas basket distribution had gone up by 7 percent, from 143 clients served on the first day of last year’s event to 153 clients served on Monday, Dec. 19. “I predicted we’d hit about 250 clients on Tuesday, and it looks like we’ll make that mark,” Deierling said on Dec. 20. “That’s about as many clients in a single day as we usually serve in an entire week. By the end of this Christmas basket distribution week [on Friday, Dec. 23], we’ll have served as many clients as we usually serve in two to three weeks.” In addition to a generous selection of hams, chickens and even turkeys for larger families, the Marysville Community Food Bank was SEE HOLIDAY, PAGE 2
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Marysville Community Food Bank volunteer Terry Earnheart sorts canned goods and mixes on Dec. 20.
Totem students show generosity
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BY KIRK BOXLEITNER kboxleitner@marysvilleglobe.com
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From left, Totem Middle School students Piper Holiday, Alisha Purdom, Ryan Krautkremer, Rage Quick, Sarahi Garcia, Kaitlin Shane, Terri Jimicum, Diana Hgvilar, Victoria HenryLeMaster, Katie Kummerle, Keegan Holdt and Nick Nehring show off their school’s haul for the Marysville Community Food Bank.
MARYSVILLE — Totem Middle School’s postThanksgiving food drive collected about as many cans of food for the Marysville Community Food Bank as there are students at the school, according to parents and school officials. The school’s Leadership classes and ASB officers coordinated the two-week food drive, which began right after the school’s Thanksgiving break. The sixth-grade students collected more cans of food
than either the seventh- or the eighth-grade students, with the classes taught by Jeanette Ashley, Tom Sterm and Lisa North coming in first, second and third place for collection numbers, respectively. “They all collected more than 100 cans of food each,” said Michele Sawyer of the Totem Middle School PTSA. “That’s almost half the number of total cans collected.” “Every grade helped,” said Alisha Purdom, vice president of the ASB for the SEE STUDENTS, PAGE 2
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