Almost one thousand students at St. Charles College bit down on their apples – on the last day of school heading into March break.

At ten o’clock the students created a collective crunch to celebrate Nutrition month in Ontario.

The event is celebrated each March with fruits and vegetables like broccoli and celery and it is organized by the head of the school breakfast club, teacher Elizabeth Szilva.

As part of the Ash Wednesday service at St. Charles College, the students’ FIRST robotics team presented a cheque to Deacon Steve. The cheque in the amount of four hundred dollars will be used to support Chalice, a Catholic organization that supports children in Third World countries.

Every year, the school aims to financially support a handful of children in places like Haiti, Bolivia and Africa. Throughout the Lenten season, the students take up a collection in their homerooms. These students created a business plan that involved getting community sponsorship. Werner Scherzinger, who heads up the group says “we wanted to support children who have nothing and want very little.”