St. John Neumann School first-graders earn canned goods with their spelling skills.
Each year St. John Neumann School in Farragut collects food for Father Joe Campbell, the pastor of Our Lady of Perpetual Help in LaFollette and a former associate pastor of St. John Neumann.
The food is distributed through the food pantry in LaFollette. As a way to earn cans, the first-grade students participated in a spell-a-thon. The first-graders had to spell as many words as they could correctly in 30 minutes. The parents were asked to make a pledge of canned goods or money to provide hams for the families in LaFollette.
The first-graders completed 96 words in 30 minutes. A total of 2,847 were spelled correctly by all the students. The students earned more than 500 cans and $200 for the food pantry.
Tags: Father Joseph Campbell, food pantries, St. John Neumann School
