The Pequot Lakes School District has started a school event
called a “Day of Caring”. This effort
was modeled after an event held annually by the Little Falls School District where
high school students spend a day volunteering on various project throughout the
school district.
What is being done is
the school is asking for projects that volunteers can accomplish in a five
hour period. Projects include any manner
of need, whether it is for individuals, businesses, governmental agencies,
non-profit organizations or others.
Their efforts can be washing windows, picking up litter,
racking leaves, cleaning gardens at the cemetery or washing emergency
vehicles. If there is a need for help,
it is a candidate for a volunteer effort.
The school will be busing all students to areas where their
volunteer efforts will be held. They
will be providing sack lunches and students will be expected to put in a days’
worth of work. The idea is really many
fold but there are needs in the community that can go unmet. This can be a help meet those needs. Students receive the benefit of tax dollars
to pay for their education and this is one way they can pay back the community.
This effort also helps to instill in the
minds of our youth the value of volunteering and helping others.
The Day of Caring will be held on May 9, 2013. Registration forms will be published in the
Echo and the Northland Press. Projects
are needed. Requests for assistance must
be submitted to the school no later than May 3, 2013 for consideration. Help make the day one of extended community
spirit with projects and fulfilment.
