If you’ve attended any of the basketball games this month, you may have noticed Student Council (Stuco) in the announcements or at lunch talking about ticket prices  for basketball games and school events. These ticket prices typically range from five to 10 dollars, but they also offer the possibility of donating a new toy as payment for the entry fee.

   However, these toys aren’t just for cabinet, they’re for kids who need it the most.

   This is a new event that has been put on by Stuco with the help of Cabinet. 

   The Salvation Army is currently sponsoring this month-long program in an effort to give children presents for the holidays. 

   They are an organization that specializes in helping low-income people year-round. Typically, during the holiday months, they sponsor projects that help families and children receive presents or everyday things they may be lacking.

   The Salvation Army is working with a lot of schools and businesses in order to give back this holiday season, and we just happen to be one.

   Freshman Violet Kerns, Student Council member, describes how it started.

   “We started essentially after the Thanksgiving break, and it’s supposed to go on until the end of basketball season. That’s until the end of the semester basically,” Kerns said.

   Stuco and Cabinet have been working hard side by side to ensure that children from the Salvation Army have toys in time for Christmas.

   Whenever you attend a game at the school, it is not required that you donate a toy, but that gift could make a child’s day. Consider donating at the next school function you attend. Every toy matters.