Check out how students of all ages are giving back through holiday collections and drives sponsored by their schools.
See how students and staff in the Fort Zumwalt School District are giving back this 2012 holiday season. Dardenne Elementary Westhoff Elementary Ostman Elementary Rock Creek Elementary Fort Zumwalt North Middle Fort Zumwalt North High School Fort Zumwalt East High School Fort Zumwalt South High School Information provided by Fort Zumwalt principals. Thanks for sharing! Have information or another event your student/school is participating in? Let us know about it! Send us an email at jordan.lanham@patch.com. Tell us in the comments.
Check out how students of all ages are giving back through holiday collections and drives sponsored by their schools.
See how students and staff in the Fort Zumwalt School District are giving back this holiday season. Dardenne Elementary’s faculty staff and students are participating in a giving tree program. The donations are going to St. Joaquim and Ann Church as part of their adopt a family program. This collections ends on Dec. 8. Ostmann Elementary's student council ran a canned food drive in November and collected over 2,400 non-perishable goods to donate to HOPE Ministries in time for Thanksgiving. "We have done these things every holiday season since we opened our school in 2002. It helps our students to really internalize the true meaning of altruism, responsibility and act of giving by actually 'doing,'" said Dr. Gregg S. Sartorius, …
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Fort Zumwalt School District
110 Virgil St, O Fallon, MO
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West Middle School
150 Waterford Crossing Dr, O Fallon, MO
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North Middle School
210 Virgil St, O Fallon, MO
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Fort Zumwalt West High School
1251 Turtle Creek Dr, O Fallon, MO
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Fort Zumwalt North High School
1230 Tom Ginnever Ave, O Fallon, MO
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Mount Hope Elementary School
1099 Mount Hope Ln, O Fallon, MO
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Ostmann Elementary School
200 Meriwether Lewis Dr, O Fallon, MO
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Dardenne Elementary School
2621 Highway K, O Fallon, MO
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Jordan Lanham
1:06 pm on Thursday, December 8, 2011
Emge Elementary School is also participating in a toy drive and mitten tree for the Salvation Army. Principal Alex Tripamer said students have generously donated hundreds of toys and lots of mittens, scarves and hats for others. This is the 10th year Emge has conducted this drive Principal Tripamer said it grows bigger and better each year.   more ›