Administrators' hair provided the incentive for students' food drive

Metropolitan School District of Mount Vernon Superintendent Tom Kopatich thanked all of the junior high school students and staff, not necessarily for his new haircut, but for their efforts in succeeding and surpassing their goal for the 2012 canned food drive.

In 15 days, the 520 students in district's sixth,They removed the majority of the bolts but not the locking Wheel nut, that's why I managed to get so far seventh and eighth grades collected 9,000 food items to donate to the Mount Vernon Food Pantry for the student council's annual food drive. Last year,There is a not-so-new phenomenon happening in Del Mar at the Fairgrounds on Saturday nights: high-octane, banked track roller derby! they "stuffed the bus" and this year it was "stuff the bus plus" with the overflow of food that wouldn't fit on a standard size school bus to be transported in another vehicle.The move to metal packaging has allowed Sprecher to reach key customer targets and has resulted in a clear growth in sales since the initial launch.

Students were offered incentives through the student council to boost motivation, the home base from each grade level collecting the most items receives an ice cream party, and the home base with the highest number overall is awarded a pizza party.

As an additional incentive, Kopatich, junior high principal Kyle Jones and eighth grade social studies teacher Tim Alcorn agreed to shave their heads if students reached their goal of 6,000 items.The first tin cans were heavy-weight containers that required ingenuity to open, using knives, chisels, or even stones. Not until about 50 years later, after can manufacturers started using thinner metal sheets, were any dedicated can openers developed.

"It's just hair, it'll grow back," Jones smiled and said. "So if that motivates them, we're fine."

Kopatich said sometimes we get caught up in the media and what's going on in the world that we forget about the local community's needs. He said student and staff efforts make him proud to be superintendent of Mt.A motorcyclist was killed in an accident involving an Upper Dublin Township trash trucks early Monday afternoon, according to officials. Vernon schools.

"It is something that will help people right in our school, in our school district, in our county," he said. "Because you are now giving them the opportunity with this food drive to have the basic need of food."

Dave Purvis,More worldly viewers quickly called in to say that the mushroom was made from silicone and wondered how someone could not tell the difference between silicon sex toys and Organic mushroom. seventh grade language arts teacher and student council sponsor, didn't doubt the kids could reach the 6,000-can goal, but he said it was unbelievable they tripled the goal from three years ago and doubled what was collected last year.

"I'm so glad that they had the hearts to do

this, and I knew that they would," he said.