I probably should not pick on the editors of the North Shore Herald/JSOnline who generously gave me my soap box. But what does this article that appeared today on ShorewoodNOW have to do with Shorewood?
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Singing for your supper
Nicolet students raise money, collect food for needy families
By Dianna Greening, Staff Writer
Posted: Nov. 27, 2006
NICOLET - Downtown at the Loyola Family Center, more than 125 students from various schools, including Nicolet High School, walked circles around boxes piled high in the center of the basement.
They came in shifts for a couple of hours at a time Nov. 18. Loud, upbeat music helped fill the room with vibrancy.
With a circular setup, students held out a box while helpers put such items as canned goods, breakfast foods, dry noodles, baby food and Jell-O inside. Other students then took the filled boxes, taped them shut and placed them on the growing pile.
The packaging event was the culmination of a week of fundraising and food-raising activities for the annual Thanksgiving Food Drive at Nicolet. The school has been doing the drive for more than 30 years.
In order to receive a food package, a family must be earning less than $12,000 a year.
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Comments 1. Let me think for a moment; might it be insinuating that Shorewood Schools could have/should have done a similar project to help the less fortunate but didn't? Wait, this is a trick question, isn't it?? Dang it, now those black helicopters are SURE to be landing on my lawn!
- Jaime Henthe (Shorewood), 11/24/06
2. Hi, Steve: I just wanted to let you know that the Nicolet story posted on ShorewoodNOW was there by mistake. I have taken it down...after reading your blog item. Take care!
- Mark Maley, NOW Online Editor, 11/27/06
