On Saturday, May 22nd, the National Honor Society worked on their final service projects for Jordan High School. One project was the beautification of a plot on the Jordan campus while another project involved students boxing care packages to send to soldiers in Afghanistan. We would like to thank all the donations that went into the beautification project, including two Japanese maples and other shrubs donated by the family of senior Emily Palmer.  Senior Malissa Gornto spearheaded the care package project because her family sends items to her brother,Justin Gornto, a Jordan graduate. “This idea came about,” says Emily, “because even though care packages typically go toward a certain troop member, they usually end up sharing because not all troops receive packages.”  Good work, Falcons!

Project 10,000, our school-wide  "students against hunger" project to benefit the North Carolina Food Bank has officially collected over 8,500 canned food items and logged over 1,500 volunteer hours!  Led by the students in the Poverty in America classes, teacher Brian McDonald noted back in September that they decided to do the project “because we can, because we should and because there are people around us who need our help.”  The Food Bank distributes food to people at risk of hunger in 34 counties in our area, or more than 480,000 people, 45% of whom are children and the elderly.

The project recently completed a three-week competition among 10 teachers on the 200 hall during 3rd period classes. Social studies teacher Don Jones’ two AP U.S.History classes won, collecting 655 canned items, nearly 16 items per person. Among other contributors during the school year were the Tri-M music festival which raised almost $200 in items and the baseball team which donated 100 items.