Science teacher Kathy Chott and various groups at SLUH have been participating in what has been dubbed “The Trail Mix Challenge.” The goal of this challenge is to make bags of trail mix and give them to Sts. Peter and Paul Men’s Emergency Shelter every month.

For the bicentennial day of service, Chott visited Safe Haven, a women’s safe

house in North St. Louis, where she came up with the idea to make bags of trail mix to donate to the homeless. Chott decided that she could take the trail mix to Sts. Peter and Paul where she goes to help with service after school once a month.

“They (Sts. Peter and Paul) pass out lunch to the men in the morning when they leave the shelters,” said Chott. “They can’t stay there during the day, so they like to give them lunch to eat during the day.”

During the day, many of them enjoy a sandwich, a pastry, and some of Chott’s beloved trail mix.

Mock Trial, Photography Club, a few individual students, and the sophomore pastoral team have all helped make the trail mix, which includes ingredients such as cereal, nuts, dried fruit, M&M’s, and pretzels.

Every month Chott brings about 50 of these bags to St. Peter and Paul’s.