Huddle for Literacy: November Write to Win winners announced
Eight pieces of original writing crafted by students at Calhoun Primary School were featured on tables at Huddle House of Calhoun in November as part of Huddle House’s Write to Win writing incentive program.
Through Write to Win, student authors whose work is selected for display have the opportunity to eat for free at Huddle House each day during the month that their work is displayed, and restaurant diners will have the chance to respond to the essays in notebooks that students will get to keep at the end of the month.
The November student winners from Calhoun Primary School were Hazel Steely, Alexis Morals, Alex North, Tatiana Wilson, Kaitlyn Aplicano, Blakely Anderson, Darlene Mosso and Tiffany Nguyen.
“We appreciate the generous support Huddle House continually provides to our students, and we congratulate our writers on a job well done,” said Jennie Coker, school and community relations director, in an announcement.
Write to Win is just one of many ways Huddle House owner Gregg Hansen has gotten involved in encouraging literacy in the community. Hansen has more than 18 Huddle House locations open under his leadership across the U.S., and each has partnered in some way with local schools. In Calhoun and Gordon County, that relationship is particularly strong.
In addition to the Write to Win program, Huddle
House of Calhoun provides a breakfast in celebration of Young Georgia Author winners at Ashworth Middle School each year, provides free meal certificates to students who reach their reading goals throughout the school year and offers free meals to participants in the Big Jacket/Little Jacket mentorship program at the Complex. The restaurant has also hosted Spirit Nights with a percentage of proceeds from dinners sold going to local schools, raffled off Huddle House for a Year with proceeds going to local schools, provided breakfast for Calhoun City teachers and staff who have shown innovation in their craft and for homeroom classes at Calhoun Primary and Elementary schools with the highest attendance rate, and has honored students receiving
Character Rewards with free Huddle House breakfasts.
Asked how he decides what role Huddle House should play in the partnerships he creates with local schools, Hansen said it is all about meeting the needs of a school as directly as he can.
“We have always tried to create programs with the schools that would help them get done what they need to get done by allowing them to set the priorities. We just try to help support,” he said. “We have a passion to want to help and believe wholeheartedly that if we do business in a community, then we owe that community something in terms of developing the future citizens of that community.”
To read the work of this month’s Write to Win student authors, visit Huddle House of Calhoun.