By Colton Swiderski

Local high school offers free fruit for student health

Feb 14, 2017 | 4:00 PM

Carpenter High School’s Student Representative Council (SRC) is trying out a new initiative to help its student body reach daily fruit and vegetable quotas.

According to the Canadian Food Guide, those between the age of 14 and 18 should eat a minimum of seven to eight fruit and vegetable servings per day.

SRC advisor Megan Gerwing said students at the Meadow Lake high school wanted to start a healthy food initiative to make sure everyone has access to nutritional foods.

“We decided to donate some money from our SRC accounts to purchase fruits for the student body to eat when they need a healthy snack,” Gerwing said.

Bowls are filled with fruit and placed around the school. The inititative started on Monday, Feb. 13. Two days in, Gerwing said the initiative is very successful.

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“We’ve gone through almost $100 of fruit in the last two days so I think the students like it,” she said. “I often see students with a piece of fruit – not in class luckily – but in the commons area trying to get their daily quota of fruits.”

Gerwing added because of the event’s success, the SRC is trying to expand it, however that will depend on funding.

Email: colton.swiderski@jpbg.ca

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