| LEOs Club deserves praise |
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| Written by Aaron Cedeño | |||
| Wednesday, 04 November 2009 07:00 | |||
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It can sometimes go unnoticed, but Louisburg’s youths are responsible for a great deal of what’s right in this community. The evidence is everywhere: in charity efforts and service projects performed by local Boy and Girl Scout organizations, in Eagle Scout projects and, of course, individual acts of charity. Recently, the LEOs Club at Louisburg High School, a youth branch of the Lions Club International service organization, hosted a pair of service efforts. Last Friday, the group organized a blood drive at Louisburg High School in conjunction with the Community Blood Center of Kansas City. On Saturday, they rose bright and early to trick-or-treat, not for candy, but for canned goods to be donated to the Agape Food Pantry locally. According to the CBC Web site, a single blood donor can help provide transfusions for up to two people. That being the case, the dozens of people – both fellow students and members of the community – who attended Friday’s blood drive are literally saving lives with their time and effort. Similarly, the food pantry serves residents in need within Louisburg USD 416, and the two truckloads of food members of the LEOs club backed up to their doors on Monday afternoon are perhaps more critical now than ever before. The number of families in need is growing by the week, locally, regionally and nationally, and the work of organizations like the LEOs Club can help offset a big part of that burden. In any community, news of an adolescent’s misdeeds can spread like wildfire. It seems only fitting that acts of charity receive that same level of attention. – Aaron Cedeño
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