LM Oct.2017

SCALES MOUND CUSD 211 SUPT. DR. WILLIAM CARON

SHAWNEE CUSD 84 SUPT. SHELLY CLOVER-HILL

Scales Mound, a small rural school of 53 high school students, adopted a classroom in the Houston area. When Advisor and School Counselor Brooke Deppe was shown a Facebook post by a parent she brought the in- formation to the students of Scales Mound as an opportunity to make a difference. Through a posting on Sun, Sand and Second Grade, Deppe and National Honor Society members were able to adopt a classroom that was affected by Hurricane Harvey. The idea was to collect basic supplies or gift cards to help Houston area students with items to get their classrooms back in running order. Scales Mound students were quickly set up to help a classroom at Goose Creek Memo- rial High School in Baytown, Texas. Deppe worked directly with the classroom teacher, Tanya Barajas, to compile a list of needed items. Flooding occurred the first day of school at Goose Creek Memorial. The focus was to get help for the 130 students. The NHS team asked for college ruled compo- sition notebooks, notebook paper, folders, toiletries, cleaning supplies, hand sanitiz- er, Kleenex, and gift card donations from students and families preschool through 12th grade. Students spent a little under a week collecting items. Once items were received NHS members packed up boxes and sent them to the receiving school. Shipping was paid by funds earned through the Society’s main fundraiser, which is the Community Calendar. Maddie Cocagne, senior member, stated, “It was awesome to do some commu- nity service not just for Scales Mound and our surrounding communities, but also on a global level.”

The school district and its communities adopted Thompson Intermediate School in Houston, Texas after it was devastated by Hurricane Harvey. Thompson Intermediate had to relocate to another building in their district due to the damage. They also needed new supplies due to the flooding. Funds were raised by students paying a $1 to wear hats every Friday and by the staff paying a $1 to wear jeans through the month of September and first week of October. One community in our district sponsored a gospel sing and donated the offering to our fundraising efforts. All of our surrounding communities ordered items for Thompson Intermediate off of their Amazon Wish List. Shawnee students raised more than $750 to assist Thompson Interme- diate School.

In efforts to provide hurricane relief to vic- tims, Sparta District 140 teamed up with Stock Transport to deliver 20.5 pallets of supplies donated by school community members and visiting athletic teams. SPARTA CUSD 140 SUPT. DR. GABRIELLE SCHWEMMER

BEARDSTOWN CUSD 15 SUPT. RON GILBERT

BLUE RIDGE CUSD 18 SUPT. SUSAN E. WILSON

Beardstown Middle/High School, Gard Elementary School and Beardstown Christian Academy hosted a “Hats for Harvey” fund- raising event for the victims of the hurricane. Students were allowed to wear hats to school for a minimum donation of $1. Teachers and staff also could participate. The Beardstown Student Council collected the money.

The Blue Ridge Knights boys’ basketball team collected donations of Blue Ridge apparel to send down to the victims of Hurricane Harvey in Houston. This was part of a larger project initiated by Houston Rockets Coach Kelvin Sampson.

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