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WASHTUCNA – Four teachers and Principal Michael Amend endured taking pies to the face by students, after generous donations for the food bank reached over 1,100 pounds.

Goals were tracked by the 100-pound mark, with incremental rewards of popsicles all around at 100 pounds, followed by ice cream bars at 200 pounds, and ice cream sundaes at 300 pounds.

The big motivator, perhaps, was the principal’s promise to take a pie in the face at 600 pounds. When the students met that challenge and went above and beyond, another teacher was added to the pie-in-the-face reward for each additional...