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From the Editor
Restoring faith with a PB&J
Max Lapthorne
max@lockportlegend.com
At The Legend we
cover a variety of
fundraisers and
donation drives throughout
the year, but one collection
effort piqued my interest
this past week.
More than 100 students
at Hadley Middle School
are working to collect jars
of peanut butter and jelly
to be sent to United States
troops stationed overseas.
The donation is going
through Operation Care
Package, and I have covered
some donation efforts
for that organization in the
past, but none so specifically
geared toward certain
items.
I mean, who doesn’t love
a good PB&J sandwich?
But it just seemed like a
random choice of items to
be sending overseas. As it
turns out, there was a specific
reason peanut butter
and jelly were chosen, and
you can read more about
it on Page 4 in this week’s
issue.
I had the opportunity
to speak with a couple of
students and teachers
involved in the donation
drive, and their enthusiasm
for the cause was one of
the highlights of my week.
I learned they were pulling
out all the stops for the
PB&J collection effort,
including promoting it by
wearing some peanut butter
and jelly costumes around
school.
In addition to satisfying
my own curiosity, writing
that story served as a
reminder that there are tons
of people out there trying
to do good and help others.
Another example of this is
a coat drive for the Lockport
Resource Center that
you can read more about on
Page 7.
We can sometimes get
lost in a sea of hopelessness
when it seems there
is a tragedy somewhere in
the world everywhere you
turn. And lately, it seems
like there has been even
more of that than usual.
And even though a peanut
butter and jelly drive won’t
solve all the world’s problems,
it does much more
than provide our troops
with sandwich ingredients.
It reaffirms what we all
know deep down, but often
forget: there is a lot of good
in the world.
I don’t consider myself
overly idealistic, and I
realize the ridiculousness
of boiling people down to
the simple distinction of
good and bad, but I do truly
believe that the good in the
world vastly outnumbers
the bad. Sometimes I just
need a little reminder.
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was a great time! A little bit of cold weather
couldn’t stop us. Apple cider, a bonfire
with s’mores and blankets provided by
AARP kept everyone cozy. TRICK OR
TREAT!”
Lockport Township Park District, from Oct.
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