Staff Writer
Dana Corbin, store manager at Paradis Shop’N’Save in Caribou, recently presented a $1,749 donation to Mark Jones, principal at the Caribou High School. The funds reflect the dollars earned by Caribou High School plus a $1,000 education grant that was awarded to CHS for raising the most money through the Hannaford Helps Schools program.
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Dana Corbin, store manager at Paradis Shop’N’Save in Caribou, recently presented a donation of $1,749 to Mark Jones, Caribou High School principal. The donation reflects the funds designated to CHS by local shoppers at Paradis, plus a $1,000 education grant awarded to the school as a result of the school raising the most dollars through the Hannaford Helps Schools program.
Under the terms of the program that ran from Sept. 4 through Dec. 4, 2009, shoppers could raise funds for local schools by purchasing certain General Mills products. Since the program’s inception, Hannaford Helps Schools has raised more than $6.2 million for New England and New York schools.
There was no limit on the amount that could be raised by each school and each store will award an additional $1,000 education grant to the one school registered through that store that raised the most funds. Caribou High School was Paradis Shop’N’Save store’s education grant winner.
“On behalf of Paradis, it gives me great pleasure to present this check to Caribou High School,” said Dana Corbin, Paradis store manager. Paradis Shop ‘N’ Save is committed to improving the quality of life in the communities we serve and I can’t think of a better way to do so then by investing in our schools.”
Jones, in accepting the educational donation stated, “This money goes into the principal’s fund and in the past has been used to outfit classrooms with items such as overhead computer projectors, things that, in these difficult economic times that find school funding being cut, don’t have to be requisitioned by our staff — it is greatly appreciated.”
