UHS students serve a little pie to teachers as part of competition
Ulysses News, December 11, 2024 – Click to read original article
The Ulysses High School Jag-K program has become a leader in the school and across Grant County for its community service projects. And Tuesday morning in the UHS cafeteria, the students got to serve up a little “Breakfast Pie” to some teachers as a reward for their latest community service project.
“We like to like to participate on community stuff to give back to the community,” said Jag-K sponsor Rosalinda Ochoa. “I had seen the post on Facebook about Adopt-a-Senior.”
Crystal Padilla with Western Prairie Assisted Living had posted on Social Media about the program, asking for donations of cute reusable bags; nice body wash, shampoos, and lotions; craft Items; colored pencils, crayons, markers; fun jewelry; coffee mugs or water bottles; bird feeder for outside residents’ windows; fuzzy socks with grippers on the bottom, and hair ties, bows, headbands.
“When I was reading about it I was like, ‘Oh, we can do something about that – we can help,’” Ochoa said. “We usually go out in town to do community service, but we’re getting towards the end of the semester and we don’t want to take that time to go out, but we want to do something from the classroom and get everyone involved.”
Madison Montano is the Director of Programming and Events for Jag-K, and her mother works at the assisted living facility.
The Jag-K officers decided on a Students vs. Teachers competition with whomever brought the most items winning, with the winner getting to “Pie” the loser.
The students won.
Jag-K students decorated boxes that were placed in the front office for the students and teachers to place their items. But Ochoa said the boxes didn’t fill up very fast.
“But (we) ended up having a good turnout and the students stepped up and added enough items to pass the teachers,” Ochoa added.
Padilla has been with the facility for less than a year and said the residents are appreciative and are working on a thank-you card for the students. She told the students that in her time working at the facility, some of the residents have not had family visit them.
“Maybe they don’t have family, they’re too far away,” Padilla told the students. “So I wanted every resident in the care home to feel special and loved on Christmas day. Everybody wants that, you know? So this is the reason I chose to do Adopt-a-Senior, and Jag-K, they pulled through with it, they did amazing and I do appreciate all of you.”