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Kelly Mill Elementary School figured out how to cut food waste by 400 pounds a week and help hungry families
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Rows of extra juice boxes sit in a freezer at Kelly Mill Elementary School on Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2020. The food items were donated by students as part of the school's participation in the Helping Hands Ending Hunger program. - photo by Brian Paglia
Brian Paglia
FCN staff
Published: Feb 29, 2020, 8:00 PM
Kelly Mill Elementary School knew it had a problem with food waste. Every day, during breakfast and lunch, its more than 1,200 students were tossing unused items like fruit, milk, juice and yogurt into the trash.
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Here’s who won the $10,000 Duck Dive 2025 raffle
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Forsyth County Schools Superintendent Mitch Young selects a rubber duck from the Cumming Aquatic Center’s lazy river for the Forsyth County Education Foundation’s Duck Dive on Friday, March 28, 2025. - photo by Sophie Ralph
Travis Jaudon
Forsyth County News
Published: Mar 28, 2025, 7:45 PM
On a sunny spring afternoon, a crowd of education and community leaders came together to go diving at the Cumming Aquatic Center – for rubber ducks.
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