Student Hunger Drive Loading Day

Today marks the end of the 2014 Student Hunger Drive. Loading Day is the day in which all donated items must be boxed, delivered to the food bank, and unloaded onto their palettes. So, it's a pretty big day for the people operating each school's drive, in Rivermont's case my NHS chapter.

Loading Day is an all-day event. We started immediately after morning meeting making the final collection of all the school's donations. My job was to weigh the boxes and write down their weights attributed to the proper grade and house. Meanwhile, the others transferred partial boxes' contents into new boxes, folded them up, and taped them. (The tape was necessary because they had issues with boxes' bottoms falling out last year.)

As the U-Haul truck drove to the various locations we had stashed previous filled boxes, we carried them out and into the back of the truck. I then rode with the development director, along with several other NHS members, to the food bank. There, we box-brigaded the donations onto their palettes. While the food bank weighed those to get our official stats, the food bank staff quizzed us on the history of the Student Hunger Drive, which - thanks to our correct answers - earned us a bonus 100 pounds.

Meanwhile, the Hy-Vee with which we had a bulk purchasing deal delivered over 7000 pounds for us - which we fortunately did not have to transport. The food bank gave us our official numbers: Rivermont Collegiate donated 13384 pounds to the Student Hunger Drive, at least 2000 above last year. On the way back to school, we stopped at Dairy Queen and it was delicious.

I totaled up the class data to determine whether the upper school or middle school donated more. It was the upper school, and out of them, my class. The lower school, however, obliterated us both.