October 27, 2009 — Ask anybody in Chelsea and they’ll tell you Meg Moss cares about her community.
Not only is she the principal at Chelsea Junior High School, a challenging job caring about childrens’ education, but she has also been active in raising funds and needed food for the Chelsea Community Food Pantry.
To Moss, it’s just a way to help take care of those in need in the community she has been a part of since she was born.
“I just, you know, want to give back to my community,” Moss said. “I don’t give a whole lot to other things. I do it because I want to. I am fortunate to have everything I need and I do it for those who aren’t.”
Moss has been active with the food pantry for 10 years. The food pantry provides food to families in need and she said this year she anticipates more families will need the food pantry during the holidays.
“More and more people are using it,” she said. “I work to help keep it stocked with food and I work behind the scenes there too. I think there will be a big push there at Christmas that’s why it is so important to keep it stocked for those families.”
In fact, this year for Boss’ Day, Moss requested her staff give food instead of gifts for her, which they gladly participated in.
Rogers County Assessor Melissa Anderson and Chelsea Junior High Counselor Debbie Hoskins said Moss is always doing things for the community.
“She teaches the kids to give and I think that shapes their life for when they become adults,” Anderson said.
On Saturday, Moss and Hoskins took students from the junior high through the Chelsea community going door-to-door collecting much needed food for the pantry.
“It’s part of Make a Difference Day,” Moss said. “We’ll be pushing shopping carts around collecting food and then taking it to the food pantry.”
For the past two years, Moss has challenged her junior high students and students throughout the whole school district to raise money for the Rogers County United Way. Last year, the total raised for all schools was $1,100. This year, the junior high and Art Goad Intermediate School raised $510.86 for fourth through eighth grades.
Moss was born and raised in Chelsea as was her husband Gary. They have a daughter, Tara Poindexter, who works for a United Way agency in Tulsa, and two sons, Anthony who still lives in Chelsea and David who is in college in Shreveport, Louisiana.
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