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Student Athlete Leadership Team Gives Back
The River Ridge High School Student Athlete Leadership Team sponsored a Do Good December project to help families in need at feeder elementary schools. The students interviewed families to determine their needs and wants, and students and staff made donations.
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From left, front row: Jamie Kowel, Becca Latty, Molly Hutchinson, Grace Hamrick, Bella Caputo, Maggie Gallion and Anna Mendes. Back row: Wiley Goins, Brady Wentz, Hunter Apple, Tyler Carter, Brian Bradley, Dylan Herrick, Riley Zacherl and Kiran Skinnell.
Woodstock Middle Collects Donations for MUST
During the holiday season, Woodstock Middle School held a toy drive for MUST Ministries. Through donations from students, teachers and staff, 794 toys were collected.
Arnold Mill Giving Tree Celebration a Success
Arnold Mill Elementary School recently held its 25th annual Giving Tree celebration. The gifts donated by students and staff filled a truck and were presented by Principal Dan Fuller, left, and Connie Hatcher, right, to MUST's Kendall Jones, who is the community liaison for Cherokee.
Woodstock Middle School seventh-grader Sawyer Swift recently was named the Cherokee County overall winner in the Metropolitan North Georgia Water Planning District’s 20th annual water essay contest.
Middle school students wrote 300- to 500-word essays based on researching an essential water career, or in response to the question: Why is a clean, abundant water supply essential for our metro Atlanta region, and for our state? Read Swift’s winning essay at www. cherokeek12.net/content/water21.
Sawyer Swift, left, is the county winner and a student of STEM teacher Stephanie Vidrine.
Swift Wins Regional Essay Contest
Sofia Bokhenko and Charlotte Meehan show their completed bags.
Fourth Graders
Help the Homeless
During the holiday season, Carmel Elementary School fourthgrade students chose helping the homeless as their Learn and Serve project. Students donated breakfast bars, packs of crackers, socks, gloves and water bottles. The students filled up gallon-size bags with the items, wrote encouraging notes and drew pictures to include in the bags.
