Centreville students donate Thanksgiving dinners

The sixth-grade class at Centreville Elementary School showed it learned from a “Character Counts” session on compassion.
The group of 60 students Monday assembled seven boxes, each containing enough food for a full Thanksgiving dinner. The recipients, all Centreville families, picked up the donated boxes later in the day.
The project was spearheaded by school counselor Diana Kamphues and involved a six-week period during which food was donated by the school’s student body. The sixth graders also sacrificed every Wednesday over the six weeks pizza at school lunch and donated the money they would have spent toward the cause.
Kamphues said she was pleased with the response after initially hoping enough food would be collected for five families.