Carver Students Reach Goal in Food Drive

Loftin and students with Harmon

At Carver High School, students in Shonticia Loftin’s Foods classes organized a campaign to collect food for the Second Harvest Food Bank of Northwest North Carolina.

This morning, Chuck Harmon, who is the manager of food drives for Second Harvest, came over to Carver to pick up the more than 200 items that students collected.

On hand to help were students Jovell Moore, Tionne Adams and Jayliah Thompson. Adams said that she was all for “helping people who need it.”

“I liked that everybody contributed and it was for a helping cause,” said Thompson, who is a freshman.

“I think it was good helping the community out,” Moore said.

Harmon had brought a big Second Harvest box to load everything in, and the students joined him in putting green beans, Spam, salmon, pork & beans and other canned goods along with packages of spaghetti and rice into the box.

He put the box on a dolly and headed to his truck.

As part of the campaign, students had visited neighborhoods around the school to let people in the community know about the campaign so that they could participate if they want.

Loftin said that doing that helped make new connections in the community. “When you do good, you get good,” she said.