A seven-hour power outage on Dec. 17 did not keep students and faculty away from Jesuit to complete the school’s annual Food Drive. With a huge wind storm the night before, the school was left with no power from 6 a.m. to 1 p.m. Students and faculty did not hesitate to reach out and make sure the food drive was a success.

“As soon as we got the notification that school was first delayed, and then canceled, my phone and my email started blowing up with offers from faculty and staff,” said Ms. Casey, director of the Arrupe Center for Justice.

Junior Jeffrey Peters said, “I just kind of felt like I should come in. I didn’t have anything else going on, and if I can help, why not?”

This isn’t the first time an event, and even the food drive, was affected due to winter weather. Principal Mr. Maxie stated that, “We’ve been here before. We had a snow storm and we had to call school. It was essentially the same thing in even much harsher conditions.”

Mr. Maxie said that it wasn’t a surprise the food drive was able to be successful since he has seen students and faculty come through to support the Jesuit community before. In 2016, during the food drive season, snow canceled school and those who were able to make it to school ended up having to sleep on campus due to the conditions.

In addition, in January of 2017 finals were canceled due to another snow event. The whole city was shut down for a week with the snow and coming to school was impossible. Options were given to take finals at a later date if students believed it would help their grade.