By Paulette Lash Ritchie, Times Correspondent
Wednesday, December 8, 2010
Tenth-graders Derek Simonson, left, and Alex Byrd paint a building at Blessed Hope Baptist Church in Pasco. Students also did yard work and helped with repairs. Teachers and administrators want students to learn how they can help others in ways that do not involve money.
SPRING HILL — For the second year in a row, Spring Hill Christian Academy students spent a school day serving the community as part of a "serve-a-thon.''
From the very youngest to the high schoolers, 264 students took part in activities to help others during the week before Thanksgiving.
The three 5-year-olds stayed on campus, but scurried around doing cleaning chores. The elementary students and sixth-graders went to Crew's Lake Park (in Pasco County) to pick up trash. Seventh-graders visited the St. Vincent de Paul Society and helped assemble more than 600 Thanksgiving baskets ...