Sanbornton Central School gives back to the community

SANBORNTON — On a beautiful fall day, Sanbornton Central School students and staff worked together to improve the lives of members of their community.

The Harvest Hustle, has been a school-wide tradition for over 20 years. Throughout the month of October, students and staff donate non-perishable food items. The food is carefully bagged, so that each student can carry one bag. They hustle over to the Sanbornton Library, where the food is collected for the First Fruits Food Pantry. Volunteers from the Food Pantry gratefully accept each student’s contribution.

In the past, the Harvest Hustle has yielded anywhere between 700 and 1,200 pounds of food. The goal for this year is 1,000 pounds. The theme for this event is "Giving is sharing, and sharing is caring," and the students demonstrated how much they care about their community.

Thanks to the generosity of several parents and community upon returning to school, the students enjoyed a fall-themed snack with their friends in the gymnasium.

Principal, Jason Javalgi noted, "I would like to thank Mrs. Kellie Allen for planning, organizing and overseeing the event; our amazing faculty and staff for all their help before, during and after the event; our generous and supportive community for all their food donations to help those in need this holiday season as well as donating food for our school-wide snack after; our strong student body that carried all those donations over to the library; and our amazing PTO for their generous baked good and coffee for the staff that morning. It is events like these that reminds us It takes a village and we have such a special, selfless and supportive SCS village that made it all possible.”