JAG In The News

The Back Pack Project

So, today Josh Peart and I (Laura Luurtsema) did a public service announcement with Steve Puffer at WYKR Radio station (101.3), about the Back Pack Project. We will be going to be interviewed on WYKR's morning show sometime soon about the back pack project. All classes have been ask to donate backpacks and food for this project. Woodsville's Wal*Mart donated a gift card so we can purchase food for the project.

The spring food drive starts on monday.

First track meet is today.

Congratulations to Myles Lalmond for being accepted to Plymouth State University.
Congratulations to Cheyenne Wrigley for being accepted to White Mountain Community College.
Congratulations to Travis Leverault for getting third place for his Firefighting competition.

We are currently actively recruiting new JAG students.

Have a great day!(:

WHS JAG starts Backpack Program

This year, as part of our community service for JAG we are starting up this new program called The Backpack program. What we are going to do is put food in backpacks and give them to students who can't afford food for the weekend. We provide 3 dinners, 2 lunches and 2 breakfasts and snacks. We will be putting this food in a backpack and give them to the kids. No one knows, but the kid and the Administrators (who will be picking what kids would need this), that they are receiving the backpack, so its completely confidential. We fill up the bags on Thursday/Friday afternoon and they will be delivered to the kids, and then we get the backpacks back the following Monday morning to fill them back up. We are starting out with the Elementary School, then hopefully we will have it go into the Middle School and the High School. This will be provided for the whole Sau23 school district (Woodsville, Bath, Warren and Piermont). This started up with the H.O.P.E (Helping Out People Everyday)based in Lyndonville, VT, and also with the 68 hours of hunger based in Somersworth, NH. This will be a program that we hope will expand into the community and we hope that it will last on for a long time and stop hunger in the community. We will be having food and backpacks donated to us.

In January...

January was national mentor month, so as an annual event that we do every year, we gave flowers to our school teachers/mentors.

On January 25th, Haley Coutu and Jordyn Tierney spent the day in Concord to meet with the District 2 Senator Jeanne Forester.

In February...

On February 2nd, Matt Latour, Brian Mallett, and Matt Wright toured New England Wire Co. in Lisbon, NH for an occupational field trip.

For more updated news...

We started up our Job Shadows. Cheyenne Wrigley, Laura Luurtsema, and Meghan Leverault went to the Head Start pre-school in Woodsville, for Early Childhood Education. More are coming up.

Today, March 15, 2012 guest speaker Sgt. Larson is visiting in sixth block to talk about repercussions of a DUI, and what its like to stay in jail and what their day is like.

Also, I would like to congratulate the following for their acceptances in colleges.
Congratulations to Samantha Catterall for getting accepted to Johnson and Wales College in Miami, FL.
Congratulations to Myles Lalmond for getting accepted to Southern New Hampshire University in Manchester, NH.
Congratulations to Halee Davidson for getting accepted to Regency Beauty School in Florida.

SENIORS!!!!
Reminder: The Senior Competition events are coming soon.

Have a great day.