7/7/2020 12:03:00 PM Students earn letters for community service
ive Stewartville High School socially distanced students, each of whom earned a varsity letter for community service for 2019-20, include, front row, from left, Hunter Olson and Allison Ruter. Back row, from left, Alyssa Jones, Bryttin Henderson and Isaac Harreld.
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Traditionally, high school students earn varsity letters in football, basketball, baseball, tennis or a number of other sports.
But for four years now, Stewartville High School students in grades nine through 12 have had the opportunity to earn a letter for their community service.
Alyssa Jones, Hunter Olson, Isaac Harreld, Bryttin Henderson and Allison Ruter, students at SHS, have all earned a varsity letter by serving their community in a variety of ways in 2019-20. United Way of Olmsted County, which partners with Olmsted County schools to recognize students for their volunteer efforts, announced the recipients in a June 23 news release.
Joyce Stacy, a former family and consumer science teacher at Stewartville High School, is the volunteer coordinator of the program. To qualify for the letter, students must volunteer 145 hours or more in a given year, the news release says...
For more on this story pick up your copy of the July 7 Stewartville STAR.
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