MASSENA â Back the Packâs 10th year of providing healthy weekend snacks to students in Massena schools was anything but normal thanks to the pandemic. But, Chairperson Julianne C. Paquin said, the program persevered and continued to support area students.
The all-volunteer group completed a decade of operation on June 18, just as schools were getting set to close for the summer break.
Mrs. Paquin said that when the pandemic shut everything down in March 2020, they had just received an order of snacks that would ordinarily be packaged and delivered to schools for distribution to students on Fridays.
âWe had over $11,000 of food. We turned it over to the school system. We didnât want it to expire. We called the school and said, âWe canât keep this. Would you be willing to take it?â They did take it, which was great,â she said.