Clubs
by: Andy Shoemaker
Key Club
Keyettes
Interact
Junior Civitan
FCA-FCS
Spanish Honor Society
German
Voices of Unity
Band
NHS
by: Becky Grant
Recently 9 people were invited to join National Honor Society in the first ever fall initiation. This honor organization is for students who have earned a grade point average of 3.3 or higher within the three years they have attended school.
Members of this organization work to demonstrate the qualities of character, scholarship, service, and leadership. The members are also very active in the Bedford County Recycling and the˙school’s tutorial programs.
The fall members initiated are as follows: Becky Beecham, Ryan Lawell, Mitchell Smith, Bob Bomar, Josh Smotherman, Tina Lamb, April Glosson, Ashley Price, and Anne Gilmore.
There is a new emphasis on recycling due to a federal mandate recommending that Bedford County and the rest of the nation reduce waste 25 percent by the year 2000. Those who fail to do so will be fined. To encourage high school participation the National Honor Society and the Student Council will be sponsoring Recycle Week once again this year.
Recyle Week will start students on class competition points for Homecoming Week. During that week there will be a table set up in the commons area from 7:00 to 7:50 every morning for students to bring in their recyclable paper. Acceptable materials are magazines, newspapers and old phonebooks. Any type of paper can be turned in. Nonacceptable items are spirals on notebooks and any type of plastic.
A minium of fifty pounds must be brought in in order to get any class points. A winner will not be announced until the last day of Homecoming Week. A class can get up to twenty points just for recycling paper.
Marry Mark Coporation, a public relations firm, has been hired by the Bedford County Solid Waste Authority to promote this program. Mark Farrar will be the coordinator in Bedford County for this endeavor and he will be responsible for placing the bin at the north end of the building and making sure they’re emptied. Student Council and NHS would like to encourage students to separate colored paper from white paper. They would also like to let you know that there are recycling boxes in every classroom all year and that they would like to encourage you to bring in paper all year long.