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Eighth-graders give back at annual community service day

Deer Path Middle School eighth-graders Ainsley Wiesner (left) and Isabella Lewin pull weeds out of a vegetable garden at Elawa Farm in Lake Forest during the eighth-graders’ community service day on Friday, Oct. 23. Photo by Nicki Koetting/22nd Century Media

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Nicki Koetting, Editor
1:39 pm PDT October 27, 2015

The eighth-graders at Deer Path Middle School have been given a monumental task: to complete 2,016 volunteer hours by the time they, the Class of 2016, graduate.

It’s not easy, but the 254 middle-schoolers are tackling it one hour at a time. They kicked off their year of volunteering with a community service day spent at 15 organizations in Lake Forest, Lake Bluff, and a few northern Lake County towns, last Friday, Oct. 23.

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