McEachern, Lassiter and
Harrison high school volleyball
teams played in a tournament, Dig for the Cure,
to benefit the Breast Cancer Foundation. The teams wore pink
shirts and raised over $8000 for the Susan G. Koman Breast
Cancer Foundation.
Lady
Indians Put the Merry in Merry Christmas. When not on
the court, the ladies basketball team demonstrates their
compassion for others by providing Christmas gifts for three
families. On Tuesday, December 18 the 46 member Lady
Indians Basketball Team went on a shopping adventure purchasing
toys, presents, and clothing items for four children. The
girls used their own money to buy games, action figures,
backpacks, clothing, perfume, and music so that needy families
will have a joyful Christmas.
The
Woodwind Ensemble Performs for the Powder Springs Nursing and
Rehabilitation Center. On December 12, the Woodwind
Ensemble visited the local nursing and rehabilitation center to
perform holiday music for the residents and to share the holiday
spirit.
Becca's Closet
recently assisted 20 girls in finding formalwear to wear
to an award banquet. The ladies receiving the dresses are from
the after school group, "Future Seekers", and were being honored
for their commitment to staying drug and gang free. Thanks to
McEachern's Becca's Closet Chapter, the young ladies will be
attending in style!
HOSA (Health Occupation Students of America) and the students in
the Health and Medical Occupations courses worked
with Sweetwater Valley Community Action Mission Program (CAMP)
and sponsored a family of five for the holidays. The students
and their sponsor, Ms. Null, shopped together at Wal-mart and
students donated gifts to the family that included a new bicycle
for a little boy, clothes and toys for the sisters, and a guitar
for the older brother. The students even purchased the family's
mom a coffee pot, mugs, a warm sweater, and snuggly robe.
Additional donated money was used to purchase the family a gift
card to help with holiday meals.
The
Varsity Boys Basketball Team, Coach Taylor, and Coach
Thompson helped Varner Elementary with the annual 'Reindeer
Run'. The Track and Field Team
has done this for the last 3 years. The teams helped the
kids stretch, warm-up, were stationed at various spots on the
course for support and direction. A few folks ran with the
children along the way, and provided a lot of high five's and
cheers as they finished.
Track team members William Wynne and
Darious Garrett spent a hot summer afternoon speaking
to about 200 kids in the area in regards to the importance of
staying in school, making good grades, staying out of trouble
and away from gangs. This was at an outreach mission trip
located at Wildhorse Park and sponsored by First Baptist Powder
Springs.
Foundations of Family and Consumer Science students
in Mrs. Dorsey's Class constructed tote bags during the month of
October to donate to Kennestone Hospital for breast Cancer
Awareness month. The bags were made out of Breast Cancer
Awareness fabric and will be given out to patients filled with
information as they begin their journey through treatment. The
classes made and delivered 50 bags to the Woman's Center at
Kennestone.
The McEachern Swim Team
collected unwrapped toys and
donated them to a family in need.
DECA marketing students
made holiday cards nursing
home residents and wrote letters to troops stationed overseas.
The DECA members also donated to the Empty Stocking Fund.
National
Honor Society sponsored a very successful can drive
to feed the hungry and collected more cans than could be
transported in one trip.
FBLA
(Future Business Leaders of America) collected canned
food for the food bank and created holiday cards for nursing
home patients.
Beta Club
serves the community through the holidays by making
Operation Christmas Child boxes to be sent to children
in underprivileged countries through Samaritan's Purse,
sent mail and care packages to troops stationed
overseas, collected canned goods with NHS, and sponsored
an angel tree to provide gifts for families in need at
the holidays.
Beta Club
community service projects during the year include:
assisting teachers on pre-planning and teacher workdays,
serving as student mentors at 9th Grade Induction,
assisting at Open House and College Fair night,
volunteering at Fall Festivals and Winter Carnivals at
the local elementary and middle schools, volunteering
with Compton's after school program, sponsoring a Red
Cross Blood Drive collecting over 150 pints of blood,
painting murals for hospital walls through Hospital Art
Foundation, assisting the Booster Club in the concession
stands at sporting events, serving as soccer buddies for
TOPSoccer, a program for disabled youth, making school
kits to be used in local elementary schools
