by Sam Turley |

As December rolls in and Christmas rapidly approaches students and faculty get together to give. December, being the season of giving, has been filled with all sorts of community service projects from all areas of LHS. Students involved in Key Club, NHS, StuCo, Serteens and even on their own time are grouping up and giving their time to the community this holiday season. The Bell staff would like to take this time to applaud these efforts.
LHS’ Key Club does the Adopt-a-Family program, getting gifts for the less fortunate families in the area. Serteens is making blankets for the homeless. B.I.O.N.I.C. Week, sponsored by StuCo, set up a day to pick up trash off the side of 291 called Highway Clean Up and many other activities that give back and show support. As a school we participated in a canned food drive and Bundle Up Bluejays, giving food and coats to those in need in our community. NHS has the Snow Patrol team who shovels the snow around town after heavy snowfall. There was the Soles for a Beautiful Soul charity going on in the school earlier this month as well. Synergy House has been on the community service scene a lot this year, too. There are so many opportunities to give to our community here at LHS, and so many giving hearts who are responding.
You can give back to the community in multiple ways. Adopting a family, volunteering at a soup kitchen, giving to Toys for Tots or any charitable cause for that matter are a just a few ways of doing so.
It seems around the holidays everyone is willing to give. However, The Bell staff urges that we give all year around instead of just one month out of our twelve-month calendar. Even some of our own staff members are giving their time everyday just by volunteering at a thrift store or adopting a family to buy presents for Christmas. The smallest gesture can make the biggest difference.