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Sharing the YHS Spirit of Giving with Ronald McDonald House Families

This year as part of our community service initiatives we collaborated with Ronald McDonald House BC. Ronald McDonald House provides a home for families who have travelled from distances to seek care for their ill children at BC Children’s Hospital. Its mission is to keep families together during tough times and surround them with a warm community full of love and support. It is a place where magic happens and where people from all different places, backgrounds, and ages connect under one roof to support one another. This year, before Yorkies went off for the holidays, we initiated the “Share your Warmth and Support for Ronald McDonald Families this Holiday Season” project by creating holiday bags in TAGs. Each TAG prepared one bag that went to a family in the house. We filled the themed bags with goodies, trinkets, games/activities for the families to bring with them to the hospital and kind words in cards. 

Thank you so much, everyone, for supporting the Ronald McDonald House organization with us this holiday season. The families were so excited and grateful to receive over 40 bags during their annual Christmas tree lighting ceremony. 

Tahlia and Riley
YHS Community Service Captains

 

 

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A Fun & Festive Food Bank Frenzy

This year, we had to reinvent our annual Food Bank Frenzy. With the help of Mr. Jackson, Ms. Green, our Grade 7 leaders, and myself, we came up with a fun and festive way to donate to the local Food Bank—a door decorating competition! For every two cans of food that students brought in, they were awarded a sheet of paper in their House Colour to add to their door. This year, our Yorkies, including the Little School, donated over 3,000 items to the Food Bank, tripling our usual donation size. We needed to order a second round of boxes because donations did not stop coming in. Once the Food Bank collected our items they weighed each box. York House collected 3,248 Ibs @ 2.62$/Ibs, for a grand total of $8,509.76. We crushed it this year! 

A big thank you to all who encouraged our students to support this worthwhile initiative, to those who helped organize the many aspects of this fabulous event, to our families that donated canned foods, and a special thank you to those who helped with the transfer of the many boxes to the Food Bank truck.

Monique Marcotte
Physical Education Teacher

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