FCCLA FUNDRAISER … The Archbold Rotary Club made a $250 donation to the AHS Family, Career and Community Student Leaders of America service club fund-raiser to support the Yellow Ribbon suicide awareness campaign. Pictured from left are senior club members Alyssa Lloyd, Maddie Short, Rayne Kinsman, Ella Throne, Norah Ruffer and Chaina Nafziger with Archbold Rotary Club president Drew Cleaver standing in back. FCCLA members held a week-long bake sale at the school and before the Archbold vs. Liberty Center football game. Their efforts raised $5,100 to support suicide awareness efforts.
For the second year in a row, Archbold’s FCCLA student service club raised more money than their counterparts at Liberty Center High School to support student suicide awareness efforts.
At the conclusion of the weeklong Yellow Ribbon campaign, which is held the week of the Archbold vs. Liberty Center football game, the 103 members of the AHS club had raised $5,100.
Six senior representatives gave a presentation to Archbold Rotary about their club’s service activities last year and this year’s Yellow Ribbon campaign.
Rotary made a $250 donation to their suicide awareness fundraiser. Last year, FCCLA raised nearly $9,000 for suicide awareness during Yellow Ribbon week.
They also completed services projects at the Ronald McDonald House in Toledo, raised money and donations to purchase children’s books and games for Adriel’s family preservation room, helped prepare the luminaries for Fairlawn retirement community’s holiday Flickering Lights fund-raiser, helped with Fulton County Christmas Cheer as well as the senior citizen luncheon at Archbold High School.