The buses were stuffed to the brim with care

For weeks, students from Camas and Washougal high school ran themselves ragged as they promoted, fund-raised and collected donations for the Stuff the Bus food drive.

The teens braved the cold, wind and rain as they manned booths in front of grocery stores and at local community events, waved publicity banners, and asked for monetary contributions. They traveled to area grocery stores to buy thousands of dollars worth of canned goods. They got up at the crack of dawn to promote this worthy cause at a regional level. And on that final day Dec. 10, they packed and loaded the pile of donations onto bright yellow school buses for the final weigh in.