Citizen’s EDGE third graders at Hayward Elementary led a schoolwide food drive last month after a classroom presentation on George Washington Carver and a visit from Keith Thomson of the Nebraska City Food Pantry.

On Nov. 30, the third graders walked all the donations over to the Nebraska City Food Pantry, which is located at the First United Methodist Church of Nebraska City, 1023 1st Ave. Students who brought in items placed a feather on the class turkeys in the lunchroom for each item donated.

Final results were: third grade,184 items, fourth grade,103 items, and fifth grade, 32 items, for a school total of 319 items.

Pictured from left are Nevaeh Welch, Jack Moyer, Jackson Walters, Parker Chaney, Zaira Mendoza, and Connor Callen. Citizen’s EDGE helps third-grade students learn how to be super citizens in their families, school, community, and world through quarterly classroom visits from EDGE Nebraska City volunteers.

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