Important Adopt-a-Family Update

Canned Food Drive is on tomorrow. Everyone who has bought and wrapped presents, please drop them off at Alex Flentje's house by tonight, or at the school at 7 AM tomorrow morning!!! Check your email for the address, and also numbers to call for any questions.

Adopt-a-family Updates

Hi NHS.

Talking to Alex Flentje, and we still don't know too much about how the canned food drive is going to pan out. I will let you know what to do with your gifts as I get more information, because I think we're still trying to make this thing happen. In the meantime, PLEASE make sure that your gifts are wrapped, labelled by family name, number, gender, and age, and separated into bags by family! This will make it a whole lot easier when we get down to crunch time.

Becky Yep

Adopt-a-family Snow Day

Hi NHS

Happy Snow Day tomorrow! But here's the deal: since we don't have school tomorrow, people need to bring in their ALREADY WRAPPED AND LABELLED GIFTS for adopt-a-family on Tuesday morning, ASAP. Please wrap them nicely, separate the gifts into bags by family, and label the bags and all packages by family number, name, and girl/boy+ age, if possible.

Thanks, and please email or check the blog for questions.

Becky Yep

Adopt-a-Family Inclement Weather Plans

Hi NHS

Because of the Blizzard Weather, we are aware that there may not be school on Monday. If this is the case, please bring the presents, already WRAPPED and LABELLED and separated by families to school on Tuesday. Any questions, contact the officers or sponsors

Becky Yep

Adopt-a-Family Giftwrapping Updates

Hi NHS!

Happy Blizzarding Season :)

Just a reminder that Adopt-a-family gifts are due to Madame's room on Monday, Dec 21st. We will be wrapping them after school on Monday and Tuesday, so come and help, because we need all the help we can get!

If you are coming to wrap, please bring a roll of wrapping paper and perhaps some scotch tape. With all of the renovations and such, a lot of the NHS wrapping paper was thrown out. So please bring some!

A reminder to the buyers: keep your receipts and use ALL the money allotted on the children. If you do happen to have money left over, please put it back in the envelope and hand it back in. We need all the receipts for bookkeeping purposes. Also, please separate families into bags by number/family name.

Be careful shopping this weekend in the winter weather! If by chance we do not have school on Monday/Tues, I will give you an email update as to what to do!

Becky Yep

Adopt-a-Family Money Reminder

Hi NHS

Just a reminder that Adopt-a-family donations are due to Stuart Russell by tomorrow, Dec 17. Please give cash if at all possible, since the money needs to be distributed the following day. If you absolutely need to write a check, make it out to Mount Hebron High School (NOT Mount Hebron NHS).

Becky Yep

What Counts for Hours?

Hi NHS,

Just a little bit of info for you all...

I hope by this point you all understand "in" versus "out" of school hours. I.e. "in" hours are when you volunteer for anything that I have sent you emails about, that the NHS board is directly involved in (holiday giftwrap, adopt-a-family, secret shoppes, 5K, etc). "Out" hours are anything that you do on your own time, as long as there is a sponsor there (volunteering through church, raking your neighbor's yard for no pay, etc)

Double Counting: a reminder that hours cannot be double counted. This means that if you are participating in another organization which requires community service, or you are being paid for your services, you cannot count these hours toward NHS. For example, leadership students should not count canned food-drive for NHS, language honors societies should not double count their tutoring hours for NHS, and anyone getting paid to babysit etc cannot count those hours toward NHS.

Hope this clears up everything, and let me know if you have any questions.

Becky Yep