National Honor Society (NHS) has recently refocused their goals for the 2014-2015 school year. Last year their main focus was support of the March of Dimes, a foundation dedicated to fighting to prevent premature births and the birth defects that come along with it. NHS advisor Gina Schlotterbeck says that this year the group decided that they needed to do something more involved with their community here are Lawrence North.

“[The new goals] are to stay within our community, to help in the building as opposed to outward reach we are inward reaching this year. We’re still going to do March of Dimes in the spring because students really like that, but we want to do more things for within our building. Look for the needs in our building,” Schlotterbeck said.

NHS would like to raise money to buy perishable food items for the LN food pantry. They plan to do a glow run in the fall.

“We want to raise money to do perishable items for the food pantry for things like turkeys at Thanksgiving or fruit baskets because they can’t keep that there. So it would be immediate things like that which they could raise fund for. We are planning a glow run that we want to do either before fall break or right after fall break where you can make a glow shirt and the money we raise from that will go to the food pantry,” Schlotterbeck said.

Schlotterbeck believes that there are a lot of needs at LN that the NHS will be able to help meet with these new goals. With any money that they have left over, Schlotterbeck says that they will try to do something like support families around the holidays.

“Depending on how much money we can raise then we’ll decide that we have enough money that we can have two families or three families which we can support,” Schlotterbeck said.