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HURRICANE - It pays for Hurricane High School students to wear their 24-7 Club wristbands and to carry their membership cards.

About once a month Principal Dick Campbell announces early dismissal from class, either at lunchtime or the end of the day, for those wearing the wristband.

“They like that. There’s a flurry of signups whenever he does that,” club sponsor Heather Reed said.

Since Campbell proposed the club in the fall of 2008 and biology teacher Reed volunteered to sponsor the anti-drug abuse organization, more than 200 students have joined.

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FOR 12 months Lachlan Fraser has been much more than Marysville’s doctor. Dr Fraser has captured the mood of this town of mixed emotions.

And he did it again yesterday.

As 800 survivors and supporters gathered for a minute’s silence, Dr Fraser pulled off the yellow wristband he had worn for most of the past year.

The band, bearing the Marysville name, had been his personal symbol of the challenges faced by the physically and emotionally flattened community.

“I’ll put it somewhere nice,” he said.

It was the good doctor’s way of saying he was ready to move on; that it was time for the town to move into a new phase.

“I can tell you it has a heart; it’s going strong,” he said of Marysville.

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By Alix Roy, Town Correspondent

Middle school students at the Salemwood School are wearing their support for Haiti on their wrists and are close to raising $1,000 to help earthquake victims.

A project dreamed up by sixth grade teachers to sell rubber bracelets imprinted with the words hope, strength, survivor, and faith, has taken off. Students received permission to sell the bracelets, which come in blue and red, the colors of Haiti’s flag, during lunch.

There is no minimum donation required to receive a bracelet but many students have been generous in their offerings, sixth grader Caron Camille said on Thursday.

“It started with dimes and quarters and the next thing you know we’re getting 20s,” she said. Camille grew up in Haiti and saw her former schools and neighborhood reduced to rubble during television coverage of the disaster. “I was crying ever day,” she said.

The bracelet sale raised nearly $1,000 for the American Red Cross in its first week, said sixth grade English teacher Jane Wright. Of the 500 bracelets purchased for the drive, only 20 remain.

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The earthquake that struck Haiti on Jan. 12 has left its people and infrastructure in ruins. Watching rescue workers and Haitian civilians pull survivors and the deceased from the wreckage, it was difficult not to feel for the people of Haiti and want to help them.Three Samuel Staples Elementary School (SSES) fifth-graders felt the same way. Greg DeCarlo, Sam Pronovost and Joey Sherwood individually approached Principal Kimberly Fox-Santora, wanting to help.

The students asked Fox-Santora if they could organize a fund-raiser through the school. With the principal’s support, they then formulated a plan.

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