The end of the third nine weeks is coming to a wrap with a few big events on the calendar.\u00a0 Crestview FCCLA has been busy with a fundraiser of its own.\u00a0 Loaves of Love is a national charity event that packs bags of food for children to take home on the weekends to ensure they have something to eat.\u00a0 To raise money for this charity, Crestview FCCLA members set up a donation table where students could pay a dollar to wear pajamas or a hat to the make-up Saturday school day.\u00a0 Madison Etzler, FCCLA member and head of Crestview\u2019s Loaves of Love, said, \u201cI think this event was a success because a lot of<\/p>\n students donated just to donate and help the elementary kids.\u201d\u00a0 Loaves of Love raised $270.50 over the past week.\u00a0 Crestview\u2019s Loaves of Love chapter currently reaches out to 17 children in the elementary side of the school.<\/p>\n Crestview seniors just returned from their annual Chicago senior trip.\u00a0 The students were in Chicago Thursday through Friday and experienced many of Chicago\u2019s finest attractions.\u00a0 Among some of those attractions was lunch at Ed Debevic\u2019s, a night at The Comedy Sportz Club, shopping along the Magnificent Mile, and visiting the Field Museum and Wrigley Field.\u00a0 Senior Clay Nofer said, \u201cThe Chicago trip was really fun.\u00a0 My favorite part was The Comedy Sportz Club, the comedians were pretty funny.\u201d\u00a0 The senior trip is coordinated and brought together by the senior American Government course, taught by Dan Kline.<\/p>\n In upcoming Knights news, the music department is set and ready to go on this year\u2019s Band\/Knight Vision trip to Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida.\u00a0 The band and show choir students will leave for Florida March 25 and return March 30.\u00a0 The Marching Knights will be marching in the am parade in the Magic Kingdom.\u00a0 Knight Vision members and Jazz Band will be performing on stage at Downtown Disney.\u00a0 In other music department news, Knight Vision, jazz band, and choir are all preparing for the upcoming Dinner Theater performance that is to be held April 8 and 9 at Crestview High School. The theme for this year\u2019s Dinner Theater is \u201cA Knight Around the World.\u201d\u00a0 The choir, show choir, and band will be performing selections such as \u201cJai Ho\u201d, \u201cSway\u201d, \u201cFriend Like Me\u201d, and \u201cWaka Waka\u201d.<\/p>\n Danille Hancock, choir and show choir director, stated, \u201cTicket sales went very quickly for this year\u2019s dinner theater.\u00a0 \u2018A Knight around the World\u2019 promises to be very entertaining along with a great meal.\u00a0 The students are doing a wonderful job preparing for this event.\u201d<\/p>\n In elementary news, K-6 participated in its own fundraiser to help a local family who recently went lost their belongings in a house fire.\u00a0 The elementary students and all Crestview faculty wanted to get involved as they donated money to help with the cause.\u00a0 Overall, $1,360 was raised<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A Time to Give By Mari Young The end of the third nine weeks is coming to a wrap with a few big events on the calendar.\u00a0 Crestview FCCLA has been busy with a fundraiser of its own.\u00a0 Loaves of Love is a national charity event that packs bags of food for children to take […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crestviewcolumn"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-16 08:33:28","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5166\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/3-23-11-KITN-picture-chicago-seniors.jpg\")