One of the many Can-Gineering projects. Photo from HF-L website
Students at Honeoye Falls-Lima’s Manor School helped make Thanksgiving and Christmas a little happier and merrier this year with several community service projects.
Prior to Thanksgiving, each class at Manor School completed a Can-Gineering project as part of a school-wide Thanksgiving project. If the “Can-Struction” project was bigger than what one class could do, two classes went together to make it. The food used was then donated to local area food cupboards on November 21 during a school-wide gathering.
“The classes plan and execute building any structure using canned goods and sometimes boxed goods as well,” Manor School Assistant Principal Joelle Weaver said. “Many of the community service projects that we do are student-driven. For example, the Can-Gineering event came from an idea that several fifth-grade students had a few years ago. This is the third year of the Can-Struction. All students help in the building and some students also take on planning the event and contacting the local food cupboards, counting the cans, dismantling the Can-Struction projects and boxing up the food.”
This year, the Can-Gineering event donated 1,627 cans and boxes of food to Honeoye Falls FISH (Friends in Service here) and to the Lima Food Pantry.
For Christmas, the Manor School’s Make A Difference Committee, which is led by fifth-graders, partnered with the Kade Project to collect new and unwrapped toys for the Marine Corps’ Toys for Tots campaign.
“We filled to the top one of the rectangular boxes, so there was probably somewhere around 50-75 gifts in the box,” Weaver said.
Manor School also had an Angel Tree, partnering with the Honeoye Falls-Mendon Rotary Club. This staff-driven project allowed classrooms to anonymously sponsor and purchase gifts for students in the district who may need extra support. The Angel Tree provided meals and gifts for 19 families this year.
