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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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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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Royal Marines in Devon have been banned from wearing Help for Heroes wristbands while they are in uniform.
The marines who cannot wear the bands are from the Commando Logistic Regiment, based at RMB Chivenor.
The Ministry of Defence said the decision was taken by the Regimental Sergeant Major and approved “higher up the chain of command”. (more…)