Duncan Middle School is finding success with its latest fundraiser.
The Crunch Wagon was added to the school this year and makes its rounds once a month. The Crunch Wagon has snacks, such as Air Heads, chips, cookies, Slim Jim meat sticks, Ring Pops, fruit snacks, Fruit by the Foot and Cheez-Its, for students to purchase. Students can also buy drinks, including water and Capri Suns.
Parent volunteers run the Crunch Wagon one Friday of every month. The prices for the snacks range from 50 cents to 2 dollars. The lowest cost items are fruit snacks and Ring Pops. The most expensive items are the Slim Jims.
¨My favorite snack is candy,¨ Olivia Edwards, an eighth grader at DMS, said.
Edwards is happy with the selection on the Crunch Wagon and feels that the pricing for the snack items is fair.
Amie Moore, the assistant principal at DMS, is one of the staff members who decided to put on the crunch wagon. She said that the school has put this on for the students and have also taken the profit from the sales that they got to use for decorations for dances, for the DJ and other new investments for the school.
Several students talked about the items they would like to see added to the Crunch Wagon, including Dr Pepper, Doritos, other brands of chips, cookies and Skittles. Although many of those items are not available on the Crunch Wagon, the students said they would continue buying snacks from the snack cart.
On the Crunch Wagon days, the snack cart rotates among the grade levels to give the students opportunities to purchase from the cart, while not interfering with lunch periods.
The next Crunch Wagon visit is scheduled for the last week of January.
