Have you ever crossed the Causeway towards Riverview, and wondered about the RHS Citrus sales signs?
For the past ten years, students have been selling oranges, tangelos, lemons, limes and grapefruit.
Teacher Shaun Gibbs says this is a fundraiser for a program at Riverview High, “It is for our Outdoor Education program. This is the biggest one. In the past ten years, we have raised around $10, 000 to $20, 000 for the program, with these sales.”
The Outdoor Education program, helps to get kids active, “It gets students exposure to things like camping, and hiking. Some schools do mountain biking, some have access to top rope climbing. It gets kids outdoors and we try to teach them life skills that they can take and do with their families as they get older,” Gibbs says.
Gibbs believes they are the only school in Anglophone East that has sold citrus fruit consistently for ten years.
They place order three times a year, and their fruit comes directly from California.
“We have a local distributor who has been helping us out to organize orders. We put our order in and we get it a week later, and then they receive it quickly. There’s not a lot of down time between when it gets picked and then gets to our clients,” Gibbs says.
Their next order goes in on January 24th.
