COEUR d'ALENE - Cheyanne Risch turns 17 today, but she won't be having just an average birthday.

The Hayden teen will be celebrating by giving to her community through the "Fill the Bus" food drive, which takes place from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. today at the Coeur d'Alene and Hayden Super 1 Foods.

"When you donate, you don't see where it's going to and everything, but putting it in the bags, you're actually going to go out and help," Cheyanne said Thursday afternoon. "You're not just giving money. You're doing it, and it feels really good."

Cheyanne and Cole Flagor-Marshall, 14, of Hayden, are members of Coeur d'Alene High School's Key Club, a high school service program associated with Kiwanis International. They worked Thursday in the back room of the Coeur d'Alene Super 1, sorting food and filling donation bags that customers can purchase for just $5.

"It's exciting to help out and to do all this and just see all the food," Cole said. "It's building up really fast. I didn't think it would be that much all ready."

CHS's Key Club members will be joining Lake City High School Key Club and FCCLA (Family, Career and Community Leaders of America) students in a combined effort to feed others in their community. The food drive is part of the national "No Kid Hungry" campaign and both high schools are working on separate in-school food drives to gather much-needed meals for the hungry before Thanksgiving.

But to fill the buses, it's all teamwork.

"It does my heart good," said Victoria Sandford, LCHS family and consumer science teacher and FCCLA adviser. "I think that this is what we should do more of. I understand the fun competitions, but sometimes it becomes more divisive than working together and I think this is a great example of the kids working together."

About 50 high-schoolers will be wearing the same T-shirts and working in two-hour shifts to reach their goals of collecting as much food as possible. Each Super 1 will have a school bus parked in the front, school buses these kids eagerly want to pack with food.

"Our goal is to fill them both up with the generous donations from the community so that we can give back to the food bank," Sandford said.

Monetary donations will also be accepted. Checkstands will have "No Kid Hungry" certificates people can use to donate any amount of money. Sandford said every penny will go directly into an account the food bank has with Super 1.

"It's just cool to think, like, these are going to be outside and people are going to able to buy them, and these are going to be in the food bank," Cole said. "I'm mixing up the cans in case somebody doesn't like green beans or something."