Students at Assumption Catholic Secondary School went door-to-door across Burlington this Halloween and brought in more than 4,000 pounds of food for the Burlington Food Bank, the charity said on Instagram.
The drive, called Crusading 4 Cans, is the school's 16th annual Halloween food drive. Assumption was the first Catholic secondary school in Halton, the region that includes Burlington.
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The school planned and coordinated the drive with the food bank, and students gathered the donations in the charity's blue rolling bins. The food bank says anyone from Burlington can come to it for help putting food on the table.
Residents who want to give can start with the charity's ten most-needed items: hot and cold cereal, large soup, juice, granola bars, peanut butter, canned fruit, canned vegetables, canned meat, pasta sauce and personal hygiene products.
Classrooms hoping to follow Assumption's lead can ask the food bank for its school kit to get a drive started. Anyone holding a food drive or other event on the charity's behalf is asked to register it through the Burlington Food Bank website.
