Vegetables, yams, peaches, pears, cranberries, stuffing, even the
bird -- all the required ingredients for a Christmas dinner were
gathered recently at La Crescenta Elementary School to donate to 10
needy families.
Each grade at the school was assigned a different food category --
kindergartners were responsible for gathering canned vegetables,
and first-graders were in charge of Jell-O and pudding.
Two boxes of food for 10 families were gathered in holiday-wrapped
packages and distributed to the chosen families, some of whom were La
Crescenta Elementary families, some of whom were Cerritos Elementary
families, parent and organizer Dawn Myhall said.
Several other schools had similar drives -- Clark Magnet High had
a food drive dubbed "The Giving Tree," while Toll and Wilson Middle
and Glenoaks Elementary schools gathered toys and books.
