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Thanksgiving and Children First Food Drive

Thanksgiving and Children First Food Drive

by | Nov 4, 2014 | Events, Home Page News

Third Grade Service Learning

Each year, our Third Grade Huskies coordinate a food drive for Thanksgiving in conjunction with Children First (CF) of Buncombe County. The food drive starts today and ends Monday, November 17.

Buncombe County has one of the highest rates in the nation for food insecurity and as a community, we all have a part in helping out those in need.

Our third graders take that calling seriously. Last year, they helped deliver quite a few boxes of food to CF. They helped out numerous families and were quite successful in their endeavor to collect food and other items.

They are again collecting food and asking all Rainbow Community folks to contribute as they can. Their goal is to be able to deliver more food than last year.

Each classroom at Rainbow has food collection boxes to store the non-perishable items until they pick up all the food on November 17th. Below is a list of what Children First has requested. Feel free to print the list and distribute as you need.

Thanks to everyone for their generosity. In the spirit of gratitude, let’s come together and lend a hand!

Food items for Children First food drive.

Food items for Children First food drive.

Rainbow's Middle School Students Clean Up Their Adopted Spot

Rainbow's Middle School Students Clean Up Their Adopted Spot

by | Dec 7, 2010 | News

Twice a year, Rainbow’s Omega class takes a field trip in their west Asheville community to their adopted spot on State Street and Amboy Road. It started two years ago when the class, a combined seventh and eighth grade, planted native elderberry bushes provided by Quality Forward.  Since then the class has been revisiting the site to check the bushes’ progress, pull invasive, nonnative plants and to clean up the abundant litter left by those who neglect to see the site’s natural beauty.

This November the Omega class was happy to see new growth on the elderberry plants. They were also pleased to notice a lot less trash than on previous visits but still managed to gathered seven bags of garbage and found another discarded computer, an object they find on every trip. They pulled enough invasive plants to form four large piles to haul away. However the find of the day had to be the Rainbow Mountain Children’s School Adopt-A-Spot sign which was laying on the ground, grown over with ivy.

Thank you Omega for your hard work and for making Asheville even more beautiful.