Wooster students joined together for a can and food collection - the "Souper Bowl." It is modeled after an initiative started many years ago by a church in the Midwest. During the time between Thanksgiving and Christmas, food pantries get a lot of food, but during the cold winter months, the shelves are often bare. The idea of a local food drive the week before the "biggest game of the year," (i.e., the Super Bowl) was thus started.
The initial goal of this year’s drive was 500 items. The grades 5 through 8 students participated in daily challenges representing each quarter of the big football game. As the donations came in, the first goal was easily met. And the challenge was on - as the goal increased at first to 750 items, and then to 1,000! The Wooster community showed its generous ways by donating 1,300 items by the end of the five day drive.