FOREST GROVE, Ore. — Forest Grove High School students have just kicked off a new anti-bullying campaign.

Teens in the school’s Health Center Youth Advisory Council said their goal is to help students think about the impact their words and actions can have on others. (more…)

During an injury rehab stint with the West Michigan Whitecaps in 2008, Yankees outfielder Curtis Granderson, then with the Detroit Tigers, noticed a memorial outside of the stadium in honor of Brian Bluhm, a fan of his who had been killed in the Virginia Tech shootings in 2007.

“From that point it kind of escalated to the point of meeting his family and doing different things like getting his name announced at Tigers games, getting a jersey in memory of him,” Granderson said.  (more…)

A group of Durand elementary and junior high students went big with their fundraising efforts recently, bringing in nearly $1,100 for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society’s Pennies for Patients program.

In previous years, the fundraiser has netted $200 to $300, so student council adviser Taniya Bland wasn’t expecting such a large total.

“We don’t know what the grand total is until the end (of the three-week fundraiser),” Bland said. “I was quite shocked when we got over a thousand.”   (more…)

PHILADELPHIA – April 11, 2012 (WPVI) – A federal appeals court is considering an eastern Pennsylvania school district’s efforts to ban on breast cancer fundraising bracelets that say “I (heart) boobies!”

The (Easton) Express-Times says the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel in Philadelphia heard opening statements Tuesday in the case, in which two Easton Area Middle School students say their freedom of speech rights were violated when they were suspended for wearing the bracelets in October 2010.

The district is appealing a federal judge’s ruling that the district cannot ban the rubber jewelry because it is not lewd, vulgar or distracting to the school day. (more…)