LIVERMORE – Ask Amy Marston, Andrew Wilcox and Dylan Smith why they collect grocery receipts and bring them to school.
They’ll all tell you, they “want to help the school.”
Amy, 7, said she has made collecting her family’s grocery receipts from Hannaford in Jay a hobby.
“I just keep on collecting them,” Amy said. “It’s like a hobby for me.”
She doesn’t tell her mother what food to buy, Amy said, she just waits to check the receipt to see how many dollars were earned for education.
Hannaford runs a “Helps Schools” program that gives “school dollar” credits on cash register receipts for the General Mills products that customers buy.
Livermore Elementary School students and staff have participated in the program for four years. This year was the third time the school earned a bonus for the most school dollars earned of the participating schools, including schools in Canton, Jay and Turner.
This year the school earned $818 through receipts turned in and an additional $1,000 bonus.
Hannaford Manager Randy Hoyt delivered a check Tuesday to Assistant Principal Jeannine Backus.
The $818 was received earlier, Backus said, and some of it was used to buy aquarium kits for first-graders for a lesson on pollywogs and to bring in a speaker for another class.
This year, Elaine LaPointe’s third-graders won the school contest, bringing in more than $300, Backus said. Debbie Timberlake’s second-graders and Judy Schultze’s came in second and third, respectively.
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