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PCMS students adopt projects Bleachers sought for soccer field By ANDIE LEATHERMAN, LTN Staff Writer March 25, 2002 - Eighth-graders at Pumpkin Center Middle School want to make their mark on campus before leaving for high school. This year’s eighth-grade class, the first to complete all three grades at the school, is raising money to purchase a set of bleachers for the physical education/soccer field. Student council members are selling raffle tickets. The prize is a chance to be the principal and P.E. teacher for a day. Students will also don aprons April 16, working as waiters at Captain Pete’s Restaurant on N.C. 150. All of their tips and a portion of the proceeds benefit the project. The students will work from 5 to 8 p.m. Students in the academically and intellectually gifted class are also doing individual community service projects. Travis Bond has taken on the job of finding an irrigation system for the P.E./soccer field. He will need to raise $10,000 for parts. Church Irrigation and Caldwell Lake Electric have agreed to donate labor costs. “We’re looking for any support we can,” he said. Contributions may be dropped off at the school. For Bond, the project has been a learning experience. When he first approached school officials about why they had not purchased the bleachers, Bond got a quick lesson in economics. “I didn’t know the state just didn’t give them the money for everything,” he said. Bond choose the irrigation system as his project because the soccer field’s red dirt clumps together, causing students to trip and fall. Bond’s classmate, Hannah Mozley, took on a needy family as her service project. She held a Christmas tea at her home and asked guests to bring gifts for the family. Alex Loftin is reading books onto tapes for younger students at Rock Springs Elementary and Pumpkin Center. Sixth-graders at Pumpkin Center are getting some extra tutoring assistance from Anna Sipe. She also plans to have a fund-raising booth at Relay for Life. Lana Alexander is teaching Sunday school at Wexford House, a Denver assisted living center. The students are enthused about their work. “It gives you a good feeling inside,” Mozley said. The more they do, the more they want to do. “As you accomplish something, it makes you look for more stuff,” Loftin said.
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