Families everywhere come together on Thanksgiving to celebrate their blessings over a delicious feast, but there are times when providing any meal becomes difficult. Since 1998, students at Oak Mountain Elementary School have worked together to build a “Mountain of Cans” in order to help people in need put nutritious meals on the table for their families.
In the week leading up to Thanksgiving, Oak Mountain students in kindergarten through third grade brought non-perishable canned goods to the school gym and stacked, so the children were able to see the results of their efforts. Students were asked to bring two cans each, but many brought more and the mountain of cans grew by leaps and bounds.
This year students collected 1,062 cans of food, which were donated to Operation Helping Hand, a volunteer group that serves the elderly, disabled, recently unemployed and lower income working families.
