Canned food drive nets nearly 9,000 cans

Hoban students, faculty and staff collected 8,759 cans to donate to six area organizations that help those in need. These donations help fill the shelves during the holiday season. It was a close race, but the seniors took first place with 2,228, followed by the freshmen in second place with1,616, the sophomores in third with 1,596, and the juniors in fourth with 1,569. In the whole school throwdown, Mr. MacDonald's fifth period class came in first, bringing in 276 cans on the final day. Individually, the following students brought in the most cans on the last day: freshman Prince Pruiett, sophomore Lilly Usner, junior Lukas Leyden and senior Will Schwing.