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Barnum Woods wraps up exciting cereal box drive pair of 10-year-olds. Beck detailed how the K-Kids worked on the event. “We had a meeting with the The students at Bar num Woods Elementary School pre- principal (about) a lot of stuff — when we would knock down pared an enormous donation of 1,019 boxes of cereal for the peo- the cereal boxes and where ple of East Meadow and beyond. everything would go,” she said. To celebrate the achievement, “We also had to decide how students set up a proper Bar- many we wanted to get and where to put everynum Woods sendthing, and we had off: setting up all of to count them and the boxes into an where to donate enormous domino them.” display that, when In total, the stutoppled, sent ripples dents’ haul of donathroughout the tions exceeded last s c h o o l ’s l o n g e s t year’s total of 954 hallways. boxes and this That domino disyear’s goal of 1,000 play was how the second annual Bar- DoNNA GolDStEiN boxes — an effort rewarded with a num Woods Cereal Kiwanis Club visit from the Challenge ended on President school’s mascot, the Feb. 12. The event Barnum Bobcat, on was created by the East Meadow Kiwanis Club, a the day of the celebration. The motive of the drive is to local division of the international nonprofit, which focuses feed local community members on supporting educations and in need. Throughout the cereal chaldeveloping the civic leadership lenge, volunteers from the high skills of young people. The K-Kids are one of the school Key Club and the adult K i w a n i s C l u b d i v i s i o n s Kiwanis Club helped make the designed for young people, in event possible — as well as this case, elementary schoolers. their classmates. Throughout K-Kids is led by Co-Presidents the food drive, Barnum Woods’ Stella Beck and Sky Brozgis, a Continued on page 6
By JoSEPH D’AlESSANDRo
jdalessandro@liherald.com
Photos courtesy East Meadow school district
Paper-based competition closes out the NFl season The 2025-26 NFL season may be over, but that didn’t mean that fifth-graders at Bowling Green Elementary School in East Meadow couldn’t engage in some friendly competition. Students and teachers dressed in their favorite sports jerseys cheered on their classmates during a spirited paper football challenge. The objective of the challenges was to push a paper football across the desk without it falling, symbolizing a touchdown. Above, students engaged in the competition while sporting their favorite teams’ jerseys. Right, non-competitors cheered on their peers. Story, more photos, Page 10.
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