Hunter Elementary stacks cereal boxes like dominoes to celebrate food drive success

WEST VALLEY, Utah — Hunter Elementary School is donating thousands of cereal boxes and food to their local food pantry. However, there’s a twist.

Volunteers spent the morning stacking over 4,000 boxes of cereal and food donations from one end of Hunter Elementary to the other like dominoes. Students lined the halls to watch the boxed donations topple over one by one.

PTA President Alyson Woolstenhulme said the idea was inspired by TikTok.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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She shared how amazed they were by the community’s response to help those in need.

“Currently about 40% to 50% of our students are on free or reduced lunch. We worry about them for the holidays,” Woolstenhulme said. “We ended our food drive with about 4,000 items and then we stopped counting, because it was overwhelming.”

It wasn’t just families who donated. Woolstenhulme explained how the community’s support made it possible.

“We have done a service project as PTA for a few years, and every year we’ve changed it up,” she said. “Last year we did a simple food drive with just our students. It was a great opportunity. We brought in about 2,000 items … This year, we have a fundraising chair that reached out to some companies and it just grew and grew.”

West Valley City Mayor Karen Lang thanked all of the local businesses who pitched in.

“We’re really blessed in West Valley to have such great business partners,” she said.

Hunter Elementary received so many donations students were able to bring a box home for themselves.

Eric Cabrera is a reporter for KSL NewsRadio. You can follow him on Instagram.