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CHSS student collecting pull tabs for wheelchairs
Audrey Chambers, of Harpurhey, aiming to collect 10,000 tabs by April 1
Aaron Jack 1 i n
While visiting a doctor at London
Health Sciences Centre, Audrey
Chambers, 17, of Harpurhey saw a
poster on the wall that would even-
tually lead her to launch a charita-
ble campaign at her school, Central
Huron Secondary School.
The poster had a picture of a child
with a wheelchair and said that pop
can tabs can be traded for wheel-
chairs.
"So I thought, `That's something I
can do, because it doesn't really cost
any money,'" says the Grade 12 stu- ,
dent, noting that it's not something
people really think about donating.
"Pop can tabs aren't something
significant for most people," she
says. "But they can be traded for
money."
Pull tabs on pop cans are made
entirely of aluminum, unlike the
rest of the can. Chambers says
about a pound of pull tabs is worth
50 cents.
"We're going to be running it (the
campaign) until April 1," she says.
Chambers says they were plan-
ning to start making announce-
ments last Friday so that students
could start bringing in tabs.
Collection cans have already' been
set up in the cafeteria, Kalen
Corrie's classroom (room 111) and
Anne Newington's classroom (room
213).
Chambers says they're aiming to
collect 10,000 tabs by April, "but if
we can get more, then that would be
really awesome."
"With the amount of pop that
teenagers drink on a daily basis,
10,000 tabs isn't really that big of a
deal," she says. "And we do have
quite a lot of students in our
school."
During the Christmas assembly
on Dec. 21, Chambers says they will
announce how many tabs they've
collected up until that point. She
hopes the school will have collected
6,000 by then.
"If it goes the way I think it
should, we should have almost
10,000 by April," she said.
Chambers says one pound would
translate to about 3,032 pop tabs.
"At home here, I have about
2,000," she says.
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Audrey Chambers, a Grade 12 student at Central Huron Secondary School, holds up
one of the collection cans she's distributed throughout the school this year in order
to collect enough pop can tabs to trade in for a child's wheelchair.
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