Students Volunteer Make 1,000+ Meals

All 137 members of Windsor Central Middle School’s 7th grade continued a tradition dating back to 2010 by helping prepare over 1,000 meals for the Bandera Family Christmas Dinner Friday morning before Winter Recess. 

The Christmas Day event will feed over 3,000 people in locations in Binghamton, Endicott and Norwich. Volunteers will deliver the meals the students prepared to those in need who can’t make it to one of the Bandera Family Christmas Dinner locations.
 
Students standing at a long table with food on it 

“The work they’re doing this morning would take us two days to do,” said coordinator Tom Tiffany.

The students spent just over an hour at American Legion Post 80 in Binghamton working in assembly-line fashion to create and pack the meals.
“It’s crazy because it’s coming so fast and then it slows down,” said 7th grader Alyssa Chase. “It feels really good, though. I’ve helped people in the past but never like this.”

“It’s fun to help out the community. It doesn’t feel like a lot of work when you’re helping out,” said student Connor Hatalla-Scrambling. 
 
Large group of students standing, posing for picture 

“The kids are great. They’re efficient, organized and so excited to help out,” said teacher Bridget Wilson, who coordinated the field trip. “As soon as we told them this was happening, they were really looking forward to it. We hardly had to give them any direction here. Everyone wanted to have a part.”

The Windsor CSD has been the only district to send students to help prepare the dinner, and has sent its entire 7th-grade class since 2010. The Bandera Family Christmas Dinner is in its 29th year.

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