Port Angeles High School students deliver a record amount of food and hygiene items to the Port Angeles Food Bank after their annual school food drive. From left are Sammi Bates, AJ Fischer, Dalton Daugaard, Rylee Lawrence, teacher and freshman class advisor Christian Gentry, Alex Hertzog and Justice Davis. Not shown are PAHS teachers Bernie Brabant, John Gallagher, Dan Helpenstell and Pam Helpenstell, who also helped deliver items to the food bank. (Patsene Dashiell/Port Angeles School District)

Port Angeles High School students deliver a record amount of food and hygiene items to the Port Angeles Food Bank after their annual school food drive. From left are Sammi Bates, AJ Fischer, Dalton Daugaard, Rylee Lawrence, teacher and freshman class advisor Christian Gentry, Alex Hertzog and Justice Davis. Not shown are PAHS teachers Bernie Brabant, John Gallagher, Dan Helpenstell and Pam Helpenstell, who also helped deliver items to the food bank. (Patsene Dashiell/Port Angeles School District)

Food drive delivers record bounty for Port Angeles area food bank

PORT ANGELES — Port Angeles High School students delivered more than 3,600 food items and more than 1,800 hygiene items to the Port Angeles Food Bank on Sept. 28.

The record amount of donations were collected during Homecoming Week activities, each of which included a non-perishable food collection element.

The drive is an annual event at Port Angeles High School.

“We are part of something,” said Alex Hertzog, a junior at Port Angeles High School. “We get the opportunity to be a part of a connection between the food bank and our school.”

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