Citizens Bank, the Burlington Free Press, Vermont Lake Monsters, Campus Kitchen and City Market partnered for the fourth year in a Kids CAN Help food drive to help raise awareness about hunger in Vermont and the year-round struggle for many families in our communities. The campaign, which ran from October 12 to 16 at participating schools, was also a contest to see which school could collect the most non-perishable items.
Citizens Bank is proud of the Kids Can Help program and the awareness it brings to local school children and their parents, said Cathy Schmidt, president, Citizens Bank, Vermont. We thank our customers and the public in advance for supporting this worthwhile cause that benefits so many in need.
The winning school was Albert D. Lawton Middle School in Essex, Vt, where children collected 2,430 pounds of non-perishable items more than seven pounds per student.
Physical education teacher Ruth McGowan, who has taught at the school for 32 years, led the students who organized this year s campaign. We assigned boxes to homerooms and asked them to collect for the food drive and whatever homeroom wins gets a pancake breakfast served to them, student Marie Reed said.
The non-perishables items were distributed to 170 needy families in the greater Essex Junction community.
Participating schools:
Albert D. Lawton School, Allen Brook School, Burlington High School s Interact Club, Cambridge Elementary School, Champlain Valley Union High School, Ferrisburgh Central School, Hinesburg Community School, Jericho Elementary School, Lawrence Barnes Elementary School s Sustainability Academy, Mallets Bay School, Milton Elementary School, Milton Jr./Sr. High School, Morristown Elementary School, Mt. Abraham Union High School, People s Academy Middle Level and Upper Level, Richford Elementary School, Rock Point School, Robinson Elementary School, Sheldon Elementary School, St. Joseph School, Thomas Fleming School, Twinfield Union School, Weybridge Elementary School,
Williston Central School and Winooski Middle School.
About Citizens Bank
Citizens Bank is a division of RBS Citizens, N.A., operating its seven-state branch network in Connecticut, Delaware, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, Rhode Island and Vermont. It has 23 branches and 23 ATMs in Vermont.
RBS Citizens, N.A. is a subsidiary of Citizens Financial Group, Inc., a $153 billion commercial bank holding company headquartered in Providence, R.I. CFG s two bank subsidiaries are RBS Citizens, N.A. and Citizens Bank of Pennsylvania. They operate a 12-state branch network
under the Citizens Bank brand in Connecticut, Delaware, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and Vermont, and the Charter One brand in Illinois, Michigan and Ohio. CFG has non-branch retail and commercial offices in about 40 states. It is one of the 10 largest commercial banking companies in the United States ranked by assets as of June 30, 2009. CFG is owned by RBS (The Royal Bank of Scotland Group plc). CFG s Web site is citizensbank.com.
Source: Citizens Bank N.A.10.3.2009