December
19, 2006
In This
Issue:
- Holiday
Gift Giving: Bend High School-style
- First-ever
ProStart Gingerbread House Competition A Huge
Success
- Holiday
Message from Western Culinary Institute
Holiday Gift
Giving: Bend High School-style
Bend High School’s ProStart class is
"adopting" two families in need and
bringing Christmas to them as a part of a class
community service project. What does this mean?
The ProStart students started with delivering
Christmas trees, then got "wish lists"
and kids sizes from the parents for the children.
One family is a single mom with four children
- three boys and a girl. The other family has
three girls. Louise Markland’s ProStart
class has posted big lists in the classroom
and created shopping lists for all the students
in the ProStart program. The ProStart class
is very excited about doing this for others,
and expect contributions to come in right up
until the holidays. Then several students will
hit the stores and shop. Four of the kids in
the families are teens so it is great for them
to choose the gifts.
The students involved in the project then conducted
a coin drive in school every day last week for
about 30 minutes of class time. This raised
over $500.00 in just one week! Using these funds,
the class will purchase clothing and shoes for
each child on the list, in addition to what
everyone donates. Then, ProStart students Kimber
Mattox and Taelor Trueblood thought of a holiday
cake sale. A new fundraising idea was born,
and the focused culinary students got to work.
A sample decadent chocolate bundt cake with
ganache icing was made (which was, of course,
mouth-watering and beautifully decorated in
holiday colors) and placed in the faculty room
for a week, along with an order sheet. The cakes
were priced each for $15.oo, with $7.50 profit
going to the family Christmas project. Twenty
were sold, which generated another $150 to put
to shopping. And the students weren’t
done yet: They collected pantry items for each
family to not only provide a great holiday dinner,
but stock their cupboards for awhile. So far,
the Bend High School Prostart class has a huge
box already stuffed with gifts and clothing
for each child on a big table in the room, as
well as four big boxes of canned and boxed food,
candy and related items, plus gifts, for the
moms. The finishing touch will be baked goods
to complete the care package.
The giving day is pretty always pretty emotional
for the students and the families receiving
this donation. The parent usually arrives expecting
to pick up a gift or two for each of her kids,
and will be completely surprised to have dozens
for each and her as well. Says Markland, “This
is a great lesson in giving to others!”
This is the fifth year that Bend HS students
have done this activity and plans on continuing
this successful program.
First-ever ProStart
Gingerbread House Competition A Huge Success
Twenty-one teams participate at SYSCO in Wilsonville
Nearly 60 ProStart students from four Portland-area
high schools competed in the first-ever Gingerbread
House competition that took place at SYSCO Food
Services, located in Wilsonville. The idea for
this event was generated by Sam Barlow High
School students Chelsea and Jay-R and their
teacher, Heidi Larson helped them develop it.
The gingerbread house competition was featured
in the Salem Statesman Journal. To read about
the competition, please visit:
http://www.st
atesmanjournal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article? AID=/20061214/ITK/612140310/1016
Holiday Message
from Western Culinary Institute
Holiday Message from Western Culinary Institute
From all of the staff at Western Culinary Institute,
we wish you Happy Holidays and a Very Merry
New Year!
