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Hull High School Students Take Part in Annual Advisory Kick-Off Day

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Hull Public Schools
Michael F. Devine, Superintendent
180 Harborview Road
Hull, MA 02045

For Immediate Release

Tuesday, Oct. 22, 2019

Contact: Benjamin Paulin
Phone: 781-428-3299
Email: [email protected]

Hull High School Students Take Part in Annual Advisory Kick-Off Day

HULL — Superintendent Michael Devine is pleased to report that Hull High School students launched the 2019-2020 school year with the annual Advisory Kick-Off Day late last month.

“The day was full of positive energy and a lot of fun,” said Meghan Preble, Guidance Counselor and Co-Advisor for the Advisory Program. “It was great to see every student participate with their Advisories.”

The Advisory Program at Hull High School is designed to develop advocacy-based relationships between groups of students (“Advisories”) and a faculty adviser. Students stay with their adviser for all four years of high school.

As part of Advisory Kick-Off Day on Sept. 26, freshmen began their mornings participating in ice-breaker activities within their Advisories to further develop relationships among each other and their Advisory teacher. Students then spent the remainder of the morning participating in team building activities such as field races, kickball and hula hoop challenges. Students participated in these activities in the Hull High School gymnasium as well as at the James P. Sullivan Field (the “Dust Bowl”). 

At the end of the morning students came back to the High School to participate in a barbecue lunch.

Sophomores participated in community service projects at the school and throughout town, led by Athletic Director and Community Outreach Coordinator Scott Paine. 

“Kick-Off Day was a successful day for the sophomore class. Students did a wonderful job cleaning portions of Nantasket Beach and helping with projects at the Hull Council on Aging,” Athletic Director Paine said. “Students also did an amazing job reorganizing and cleaning the trophy cases in the main gym entrance. Students also spent the day weeding and cleaning up the school grounds in conjunction with the opening of the new turf field.” 

Both freshmen and sophomores were brought to the auditorium, where they listened to a guest speaker, Jacobs Elementary School Assistant Principal Kyle Shaw.

Juniors and seniors took a chartered boat into Boston from Pemberton Pier to Long Wharf.

There juniors visited either Suffolk University, Boston University or Northeastern University, where they took part in campus visits with their Advisories and their advisers. This provided students an opportunity to explore the college experience and begin their college search.

Students got tours of the campus, heard about the admissions process and learned about the various opportunities each college or university has to offer. 

Once seniors got off the boat they had the opportunity to experience one of two of Boston’s attractions — either the Freedom Trail to learn about its rich history as it relates to the development of Boston, or the New England Aquarium to learn about marine life.

Students then returned to Faneuil Hall for lunch before returning to Hull High School

For seniors, this visit is the culmination of the previous three years in which they have developed stronger, more connected bonds with their advisers. Students and advisers work together to plan the day and what they hope to experience.

“Bringing our students into Boston to explore a variety of colleges and universities, as well as learn about the rich history that took place right in our own backyard makes this day truly amazing,” said Daniel Mastrogiacomo, Assistant Principal and co-adviser of the Advisory Program. “We are so fortunate to be able to offer our students this opportunity.”

Hull High School Principal Nicole Nosek, Mastrogiacomo and Preble would like to extend their thanks on behalf of the High School Community to the Hull PTO and the Hull Boosters for helping fund Advisory Kick-Off Day. Their generous support helped defray some of the cost to make the day possible.

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Dighton Cub Scouts Pick Up Trash Around Town for Community Service Project

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Town of Dighton
979 Somerset Ave.,
Dighton, MA 02715

For Immediate Release

Thursday, Aug. 15, 2019

Contact: Benjamin Paulin
Phone: 781-742-3922
Email: [email protected]

Dighton Cub Scouts Pick Up Trash Around Town for Community Service Project

DIGHTON — Town Administrator Mallory Aronstein is pleased to share that a local Cub Scout group volunteered to pick up litter around the town.

Pack 45, Dighton’s local Cub Scout group, decided to pick up trash as a community service project. The group walked through the Broad Cove Nature Trail to collect trash and litter.

Two members of Pack 45, Aaron and Eliot Boudreau, cleaned up an area of land along Elm Street by the Muddy Cove Pond Dam and collected 35 pounds of trash.

“We would like to thank these Cub Scouts for their service to the community,” Town Administrator Aronstein said. “Not only is picking up trash important for the environment, but the group’s work helps to keep our town clean and beautiful.”

The group worked with Highway Superintendent Tom Ferry to organize the project. The Town’s highway department assisted by picking up the filled trash bags for the group.

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King Philip High School Senior Receives Outstanding Youth Award

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King Philip Regional School District
Paul Zinni, Superintendent
18 King Street
Norfolk, MA 02056

For Immediate Release

Monday, March 18, 2019

Media Contact: Benjamin Paulin
Phone: 781-428-3299
Email: [email protected]

King Philip High School Senior Receives Outstanding Youth Award

King Philip Regional High School Senior Simone Barger has been named the North Attleboro-Plainville Rotary Club’s 2019 Outstanding Youth. (Courtesy Photo King Philip Regional School District)

WRENTHAM — Superintendent Paul Zinni is pleased to announce that King Philip Regional High School senior Simone Barger has been named the 2019 Outstanding Youth by the North Attleboro-Plainville Rotary Club.

Barger was nominated for the award by Cheryl Rowe, the adviser of the school’s student community service club, KP Cares. Since her freshman year at King Philip Regional High, Barger has been an active member of the club and has taken on various leadership roles. Today, she serves as co-president of the club.

“Simone is an amazing student and person,” Rowe said. “I am thrilled to see her recognized for her dedication to community service. She is kind, generous, and always the first to offer to help. I have no doubt that wherever life takes her she will continue to have a great impact on those around her and they will be better for having her in their lives.”

KP Cares organizes about 10 events annually, and Barger has frequently co-chaired these initiatives to raise funds for various causes and support the community.

Events Barger has co-chaired include Putting 4 Patients, a mini-golf event held at King Philip High School to raise money for The Jimmy Fund; the Fight Back Festival, an event that raises funds to help local families struggling with cancer; and the Giving Tree, an annual drive at King Philip High where students collect gifts for local families for the holidays. Barger has also helped to coordinate volunteers to help with renovations at the Gilly House, a sober house in Wrentham.

Barger traveled with KP Cares in April 2018 to visit an orphanage during a service trip to Costa Rica. She participated in many activities to raise money and collect donations for the orphanage. During the trip, the group also helped a local family refurbish their farm to offer horse therapy for children with disabilities, and Barger also visited a local high school and helped plant trees in a reforestation project.

Barger will be recognized at the 2019 Distinguished Service Awards banquet at the Heather Hill Country Club on Monday, March 18.

“It’s a pleasure to see Simone recognized for her dedication to community service,” Superintendent Zinni said. “Her passion for helping others and efforts to better her community are a great example for her peers, and it is wonderful that she found an avenue to do good through KP Cares.”

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King Philip Student’s Project Gives Thanks to Local First Responders and Military Members

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King Philip Regional School District
Paul Zinni, Superintendent
18 King Street
Norfolk, MA 02056

For Immediate Release

Monday, Oct. 1, 2018

Media Contact: Benjamin Paulin
Phone: 781-428-3299
Email: [email protected]

King Philip Student’s Project Gives Thanks to Local First Responders and Military Members

WRENTHAM — When Samantha Asprelli was challenged to come up with a project to honor local first responders and military members on the anniversary of 9/11, her plan was to get as much help as possible.

The result?

Forty friends, neighbors and teachers went to her house for a day over the summer to make more than 125 cards and 14 trays of baked goods to be given to Wrentham police officers and firefighters. They also delivered wish list items (such as instant lemonade, coffee and energy drinks) to be donated to soldiers overseas and gift cards for local veterans through the Massachusetts Military Heroes Fund.

Asprelli, a 14-year-old King Philip Regional High School freshman from Wrentham, is her hometown’s ambassador for Project 351. Project 351 is a non-profit group that seeks to empower 8th grade students from all 351 Massachusetts cities and towns through community-service projects.

“I really wanted to show everyone that if people get together they can really make a difference,” Asprelli said. “I have a lot of respect for our first responders and the military and it was really great being able to help them and show our appreciation for everything they do.”

On the weekend before 9/11, Samantha dropped off the handmade cards and baked goods at the Wrentham Police and Fire Station. She also showed the police officers and firefighters a tribute video that she made featuring several community teens and children thanking them for their service.

“They loved it. A group of friends and I went to drop everything off and I gave a speech to the police and firefighters to say thank you,” Asprelli said. “They really enjoyed the video we made for them.”

On Sept. 11, Samantha went into Boston and joined her fellow Project 351 ambassadors to put care packages together for military members serving overseas.

Through the course of working on her project Samantha was able to raise $230 that was donated to the Massachusetts Military Heroes Fund.

“It’s great that you have a student who really took the ideas she had and invested fully in doing good work for others and that she involved her friends,” said Susan Gilson Assistant Superintendent and KP Middle School Principal. “She really stepped up and did something for the community and I think that’s great.”

For Asprelli, her time as an ambassador for Project 351 will be coming to an end at the end of the year. But she plans to continue contributing to the program by completing community service projects whenever she can.

“I wasn’t born when 9/11 happened but it’s still very important to remember the sacrifices that were made by first responders that day and to support our military members,” Asprelli said.

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