Fifteen sophomores volunteered for the Tonawanda High School Class of 2024 bottle drive fundraiser. (Photo by Larry Austin/Community Relations Coordinator)
City of Tonawanda folks who donated their empty bottles and cans at Tonawanda High School recently helped students fund senior year activities one nickel at a time.
The Tonawanda High School Class of 2024 held its second bottle and can recycling drive on April 30 at the school driveway loop.
"We did this in the fall back in late November," said sophomore class advisor Scott Benson. "And that was the first time we ever did it." The inaugural bottle drive fundraiser was "super successful," he said, raising more than $370. "We're really hoping that this one will get us the same or more."
Benson counted 15 volunteers from the sophomore class helping with the fundraiser this time around. They were busy, too, because initial results from the second bottle drive show this type of fundraiser has "really grown," Benson said. The sophomores collected approximately 15,000 bottles and cans between the two fundraisers.
Every year, classes hope to raise $1,000 or more to defray the costs of the class picnic, senior luncheon, and prom. "All those expenses, we try to offset them with these funds to get their ticket prices to go down. Everything's so expensive," Benson said.
Benson noted that the next Class of '24 fundraiser, a car wash, is planned for a Saturday in June.
