The Greene County High School Student Council is hard at work collecting items for the less fortunate.

Advisor Deb Marquardt says they’ve combined their annual clothing drive to give to area elementary students as well as a food drive to help support the local food pantry, Action Resource Center.

She states that each drive has been going on for a couple of weeks and that the food drive has been extended until the end of this week, culminating to a Powder Tuff boys volleyball game this Friday night.

On top of that, Marquardt adds, kids have been bringing non-perishable food items into school and placing them in one of four faculty members boxes and the faculty member who has the most amount of food items at the end of this week will have to dress up in unique attire.

She talks about how important it is for kids to understand what it means to give to organizations like the ARC.

“We try to teach kids all the time about doing things for others without getting anything back and helping out with kids that are walking the halls with, we don’t know the story behind everybody but we always know we can find ways to help other people.  And that’s always kind of the message.”

She points out that the public is invited to the Powder Tuff volleyball game with seniors and freshmen vs juniors and sophomores at 5:30pm at the middle school gym in Jefferson with admission of two non-perishable food items to be sent to the ARC.