There is plenty of thanks for the giving around Edwardsburg.

Recently, Edwardsburg Public School students of all grades and ages took part in an annual district-wide food drive to benefit the food pantry at Our Lady of the Lake Church.

The food pantry is an effort on behalf of several area churches.

Members of the Edwardsburg High School student council were busy loading up trucks and delivering the food to the church earlier this month.

“The high school kind of heads up the food drive that the whole district participates in,” said Carrie Pryor, student council adviser.

Pryor said each of the schools participated in the food drive this year, collecting specific food items each day of the week, such as breakfast foods on Monday, canned goods on Tuesday and so on.

“Then the high school student council goes around to all of the buildings and collects all the food and we deliver it to the food pantry.”

Pryor, who said this was her first year helping out as adviser, said it was “absolutely unbelievable to see all the food that came in,” and to watch the students as they worked between 7:30 a.m. and 12:30 p.m.

Student council members, who collected food from classrooms and buildings throughout the district also sorted items to be sent to the food pantry.

“It was just unbelievable to see everything,” Pryor said. “That the students had come together and just how our small group could make a difference.

“It would bring a tear to your eye to see all the buildings donated,” she said. “And seeing the students working. It was great to be a part of the experience.”