Schools put their “best foot forward”
Students from Roland Michener Secondary School delivered over 200 shoeboxes for “Operation Christmas Child” (Back L to R ) Corbin Cooper, Kyle Dodds, Aaron Combs, (centre L to R) Samantha Osmond, Brittani Penton, Allison Deas, Kaley Donaldson, Georgia Keaveny, Kristin Miller, Alison Winarski, Mohammed Assaf (front row L to R) Zack Lund, Gordon Twinn, Lillian Chartrand, Alex Hickling & Maggie Lilly.
Wednesday, Nov. 18 was shoebox collection day at C.J. Schurter, E.G.Wahlstrom and Roland Michener, and the schools put their “best foot forward” by contributing hundreds of shoeboxes for “Operation Christmas Child.”
“What an exciting time we had,” said Marge Prochyshyn coordinator of the Operation Christmas Child shoebox program in Slave Lake, “we were so impressed with the high school, with all the young adults participating in the event for the first time and delivering over 200 filled shoeboxes.”
“The idea was brought to the Senior High Student Council and Junior High Leadership Program by Janice Nowchin,” said teacher Tara Boyle, I worked with the high school kids and Christine Boisvert worked with the junior high.”
“We were thrilled with the turnout as it’s the first time we’ve done this.”
“We would really like to thank everyone who filled the boxes,” said Procyshyn, “teachers who organized the events and the mothers who got the tasks of filling the boxes. All the children receiving the boxes will be so grateful.”
“Operation Christmas Child” at C. J. Schurter School (L to R) Kayle Dierker, Cole Carifelle-Laing , Jessica Nakahara, Celena Domonkos, William Carrell, Gillyan Broad and centre Hayden Dierker
“Operation Christmas Child” at E.G. Wahlstrom (L to R) Melissa Lemieux, Courtney Whittle, Brandon Rubisch and Operation Christmas Child Coordinator Marge Procyshyn. (Missing from photo Andrew Crawford)
“Operation Christmas Child” at Roland Michener Secondary School
Procyshyn says the shoeboxes are sent to Calgary- that’s where the OCC head office has its storage depot. From there, the brightly-coloured shoeboxes will be shipped to points in Central and South America.
Specifically, gifts collected at the Calgary depot this year will be sent to youngsters in Bolivia, Chile, Costa Rica, El Salvador and Guatemala.
Individuals looking for info on distribution trips or volunteer opportunities can call 1-800-663-6500 or email Canada@samitan.org.
Also, their will be other trips for prospect volunteers to Nicaragua from April 30 to May 8 (at a cost of Can$ 2,700)
Anyone who may be interested in this trip, please call Operation Christmas, Child Samaritan’s Purse - Canada.
1.403.815.0408 or go on line and check this information out. samaritanspurse.ca/occ
Deadline for completion of the application is December 4.
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