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La Ronge students help at food bank and garden
 Students from Pre Cam Community School and Churchill Community High School helping in the garden. |
 Students from Pre Cam Community School and Churchill Community High School helping in the garden. |
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Students from Pre Cam Community School and Churchill Community High School have taken on various projects to help the Lac La Ronge Food Bank recently.
In a food drive initiated by Pre Cam teachers Jasmine Irwin and Cheyney Kirzinger, all the “quads” competed against each other to bring the most items. Students followed the food bank’s “Top Ten” list for needed grocery items, and the result was a collection of 921 very useful non-perishable items. It took two vehicles to transport all the food to the food bank!
From Churchill Community High School, Maguy Sirieix’s Grade 7 French Immersion class worked at the food bank on two occasions, re-packaging bulk food and packing hampers. They also made a class donation, and each student wrote poetry on the topics of the food bank and volunteerism.
Anne Dorion’s class and Debbie Banman’s class, also Grade 7 classes from Churchill, accompanied by Michelle Biden, Community School Coordinator, had a field trip of learning and volunteering at the food bank’s Potato Lake Garden. Besides soil preparation and spring jobs, they planted a plot of carrots, beets, and seedlings that they had started at school. Other classes will also help to maintain the plot before the school year is over. Usually all produce from that garden goes to the food bank, but because it is a school project, the students will sample some of the produce that they harvest from their plot in the fall, and then take the rest to the food bank.
Through these activities, the students are learning skills, and at the same time, they are learning concern for others, volunteerism, and community involvement.
Garden update
Hooray! The food bank’s Potato Lake Garden is planted and now it’s being rained on. On Friday, June 8 in the evening, the roto-tilling was completed, and the potato planters followed right behind. Boulders were loaded into the scoop of the front-end loader and carted away. Even the yellow tractor was hauled away, and will be looked over to see if it is worth fixing. On Saturday morning, some of the crew returned to plant the carrots and beets, and pull out more tree roots in advance of the discer coming in over the next few days. Following that, we can plant our legumes for “green manure” and have them harrowed in. Shingles have already arrived for the roofing project on the shed, and the sand has arrived for the gate improvement project.
Weather permitting, more students from Churchill Community High School (CCHS) will come out Monday to tend to their plot and put in a few more potatoes.
Thank you so much to all the volunteers that have helped already this year. We will be sending all volunteers updates and requests as the season progresses. If you don’t want these emails, let me know and I will take you off the list. If you know others who are interested in “digging in the dirt together for a good cause”, please let them know so they can join in the fun.
The more workers…the more fun!
The food bank is always looking for volunteers. If you think you would like to volunteer, even occasionally, at the food bank, or if you would like to ‘dig in the dirt with us for a good cause’ at the garden, contact laclarongefoodbank@gmail.com or phone Trudy at 425-3887 or Cheryl at 425-9422
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