Got Bracelets With Your Breakfast
For eight months, local elementary schools have offered free breakfast to all students regardless of income status. Now eight of those schools are testing a new program aimed at feeding more children...
View ArticleA Bracelet, Just For Walking To School?
Children, parents and staff from Kynoch Elementary School in East Marysville ran, hopped and skipped – some even walked – to school at the debut “Walk to School” event at the school Wednesday morning....
View ArticleStudents Pledge To Not Drink And Drive
High School Students have many decisions ahead of them as far as life changing experiences go.For her senior project, Michelle Jones decided to address the issue of drunk driving by holding a...
View ArticleYouth Programs Let Students Try Out Careers
For Josh Laurin, a Two Rivers High School senior, and Amy Pfeffer, a Lincoln senior, their youth apprenticeships have enabled them to observe the nursing profession up close and personal. “I’ve liked...
View ArticleWristbands Promote Sober Graduation
Sheriff’s deputies will conduct extra patrols next week and check parties for underage drinking to combat high school graduation-time traffic fatalities.”What we’ve done and continue to do is saturate...
View ArticleFollowing a Leader and Best Friend
Maureen Onda’s four years of athletic accolades at Century High have been special to her, but she’s more excited about being able to wear a certain jersey number next year in college. When Onda takes...
View ArticleRaising Awareness Among Teens
Ashton McLamb isn’t necessarily your average teenager. While she does spend a lot of time hanging out with friends, working on the cheerleading squad and playing tennis, she also spends a significant...
View ArticleCampaigning to End Bullying
The campaign is running until the end of the month, and involves staff from all eight secondary schools in Moray, local community beat officers and community wardens who will all work closely together...
View ArticleWristbands Support the Troops
A charity campaign which was set up by a teacher and a group of his pupils is being given support from all over the world. Stamford’s Richard Brewster set up the Supporting Our Troops charity with...
View ArticleUnique Fundraising Ideas for Schools
As senior high school classes are beginning to wrap up their last remaining weeks before graduation, juniors are beginning to gear up for future fundraising efforts over the summer and fall months....
View ArticleStudents and coworkers wear pink bands to support teacher
Staff and students from Port Charlotte High School have united to form a sort of human cocoon around Stefanie Flowers, an English teacher.The teacher found out she has advanced breast cancer in April....
View ArticleBands remind people to "Say No to Meth"
Meth has a way of hijacking a user’s personality, says Attorney General Rob McKenna. The drug is so addictive and causes so much long-term damage that it is best if young people never try it. McKenna...
View ArticleStudents sell bands to "Support Our Troops"
Every year, students collect soda can “flip tops” for the benefit of the Ronald McDonald house in Boston. Every fall, the school organizes a food drive to supply Father Sweeney’s Food Pantry at St....
View ArticleTeachers use bands to promote wellness
Fourth-graders walking through a Shreveport neighborhood are a sign of a new trend in physical education. Prompted by increasing concerns about childhood obesity, as well as a federal requirement that...
View ArticleStudents use bands to help African orphans
A teen at Camarillo High School went without a coffee at Starbucks so that she could donate $5 to her school’s Help Educate At-Risk Orphans club.With that java money, one African child will be fed...
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