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YORKTON—Students and staff at the Yorkton Regional High School were treated to a thanksgiving feast for lunch on Oct. 7th.

Around 1000 people were served for the event that was planned by the Student Leadership Class.

"It's been an exhausting three days...super proud of these guys—they've worked hard and done everything I've asked of them—lots of last-minute things," said Lana Stanek-Sebastian, teacher at the YRHS.

"Today was a lot of, 'OK, go go go!', and they just go and they look after the things, so it's been awesome to work with these guys to make sure that this thing is going to run and they've taken a lot of thing off of my plate, which is good," said Stanek-Sebastian, adding that the event is about student leadership and community and that the project leaders have "proven themselves in spades today."

"We haven't been able to do it in the past two years because of the COVID-19 Pandemic, but before COVID-19 we did this yearly for four years," said Project Leader and Grade 12 Student, Jarren Reaney.

"We are in charge of organizing, sending out letters to businesses for donations, we're in charge of getting everything to the school, we're in charge of gathering volunteers, advertising it – hyping it up," said Project Leader Vinay Junek, adding, "it's just a really cool opportunity that our school gets to do it – it's a privilege for our school to be able to put something like this on."

"It's really cool being able to put something like this together—most of the students don't even know how much work it takes to put something like this on," said Junek, noting, "it's pretty special because not everyone in this building gets an opportunity to share a meal with their family so we like to share it without family of Raiders."

"This feast would definitely not be possible without the help of our community, everyone who donated, everyone who is here serving today and our leadership class," added Reaney.