Laker senior projects give back to community

As part of Karen Smith’s Senior Strategies class at Laker High, seniors worked in small groups or on their own to complete various community service projects in May. The seniors came up with their own projects and they presented them to school administration for approval. Some projects benefited the school, while others helped local communities in some way. Not all seniors take this Senior Strategies class, but those who are in the class did a phenomenal job with their projects, and the seniors felt good about giving back to the community. Here are some of the projects – the pictures represent the following projects: assisting a local pastor at a church and his home in Elkton, a cell phone drive for Huron County SafePlace, a Day at the Farm, painting and doing other improvements to the exterior of the Elkton Village Hall, creating a book box for the cafeteria so students can borrow books and read them while they’re waiting for parents to pick them up, making improvements to the basketball court in the Bay Port park, doing a craft project with Country Bay residents, hosting an orientation for junior high students and sharing important advice regarding high school academics and extracurricular activities, raising money for and donating time at the Thumb Animal Shelter, working with second graders to help them reach their AR goals, purchasing and planting trees for the elementary school (one for grades DK-2nd and one for grades 3rd-5th), and helping with various junior high seminar-time activities.