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West Hall High School students pack more than 50,000 meals as service week starts

Teacher Danielle Bechtold, right, counts students while they put on hair nets Monday morning at West Hall as they prepare to package meals for food banks. Altogether more than 900 students rotated through the cafeteria and packed 50,608 meals to be shipped to the Georgia Mountain Food Bank in Gainesville and Meals of Hope in Florida.

1018SERVICE5 — Teacher Danielle Bechtold, right, counts students while they put on hair nets Monday morning at West Hall as they prepare to package meals for food banks. Altogether more than 900 students rotated through the cafeteria and packed 50,608 meals to be shipped to the Georgia Mountain Food Bank in Gainesville and Meals of Hope in Florida.

It was organized, if a bit chaotic at first — the first part of Spartan Service Week at West Hall High School on Monday. More than 900 students rotated through the cafeteria and packed 50,608 meals, Shenley Rountree, the coordinator for the week, said. “Everything got packaged,” Rountree said.