Caribou NHS members supportive of soup kitchen

Contributed Photo     Emma Duplissie-Cyr, left, and Kayla Cormier are shown gathering food boxes for Caribou High School’s National Honor Society holiday food basket collection.

By Mackenzie Belya
Special to the Aroostook Republican

    The National Honor Society is pleased to announce that Caribou High School collected 44 completed food baskets for our local soup kitchen, The Bread of Life.
    On December 3, 2012 a box was delivered to each homeroom, asking for them to fill it with various items, such as a bag of flour and sugar, a box of stuffing, a package or can of gravy mix, a jar of fruit juice, a small canned ham, cleaning supplies and more.

    Each box was collected by National Honor Society members on December 20, 2012 and was delivered on the same day to the Bread of Life Soup Kitchen for their use and distribution to families during the holiday season.
    The homeroom that collected the largest amount of food items and/or completed food boxes was awarded hot chocolate and homemade cookies on December 21, 2012.
    This program was chaired by Mackenzie Belyea, NHS vice president, and Ginger Kieffer, NHS member.
    Items requested for each basket were:
• A can of fruit filling for the pie    
• A bag of sugar
• 10 lbs of potatoes
• A package or can of gravy mix
• A bag of four sweet potatoes
• Cream of mushroom, celery, chicken, etc. soup
• A jar of fruit juice
• A can of evaporated milk
• Pie shell mix, including an aluminum baking tin
• A holiday bread mix
• A can of cranberry sauce, jellied or whole berry
• A small canned ham
    The Bread of Life Soup Kitchen asked that cleaning supplies such as 10 -20 oz dish soap, a four- to six-pack of hand soap, paper towels, four-pack toilet paper, and gift cards to Shop n’ Save or Sleepers be added to this Christmas’ food baskets due to  the lack of these items. Homemade items are also welcome. 

Contributed Photo     Staff of Caribou’s Bread of Life Soup Kitchen stand among the boxes of food and household items delivered to the soup kitchen by Caribou High School’s National Honor Society students during the holiday season.

Contributed Photo     Food boxes collected from classrooms at Caribou High School for the National Honor Society’s holiday food basket drive were loaded onto carts to be prepared for delivery to the Bread of Life Soup Kitchen.

Contributed Photo     Caribou High School National Honor Society students deliver the boxes of food they collected over the holiday season to Bread of Life Soup Kitchen in Caribou.

Contributed Photo     Caribou High School National Honor Society students unload from their vehicles the boxes of food NHS collected for the Bread of Life Soup Kitchen over the holiday season.

Contributed Photo     Staff of Caribou’s Bread of Life Soup Kitchen take a look at the boxes of food and household items collected and delivered by Caribou High School’s National Honor Society students during the holiday season.

Contributed Photo     Caleb Findlen, left, and Meredith Sleeper are shown tallying the food collected for Caribou High School’s National Honor Society holiday food basket drive.