St. John’s Prep students grades six through 12, faculty and staff collected $2,637 in cash/check donations and 425 pounds of food to the St. Joseph Community Food Shelf. Prep students brought in non-perishable food items. The money was used to purchase turkeys, pies, buns and other perishable items. Sarah Gainey’s sixth-grade homeroom was declared the winning class based on the amount of food (104.8 pounds) and the amount of money ($185) they collected.
Students and faculty from St. John’s Prep School recently collected more than $2,600 and 425 pounds of food to donate to the St. Joseph Food Shelf. They are (front row, left to right): Caiden Danielson, Sartell; Annie Reisinger, Sartell; Isabella Dulka, Avon; Mireya Wolf, St. Joseph; and Lilly Gallagher-Mancini, South Haven; and back row: Leo Hintgen, Sartell; teacher Christopher Smith, St. Cloud; Cora Bauer, Richmond; Valeria Avalos, Cold Spring; Connor McMahon, Clearwater; Ryder Windfeldt, St. Augusta; Riley Schaeffer, Clearwater; Penelope Larson, St. Augusta; Garrison Schilplin, Maple Lake; and teacher Sarah Gainey, Holdingford.
Von Pinnon has been publishing the St. Joseph Newsleader since 1989, the Sartell-St. Stephen Newsleader since 1995 and the Sauk Rapids-Rice Newsleader since 2015. She graduated from Minnesota State University-Moorhead with degrees in mass communications (with an emphasis on print journalism) and biology. She lives in southeast St. Cloud with her husband and two children.
