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March 18, 2024

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Fort students spend day in service to school, community

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Meadow Homes — Students at Fort Vancouver High School’s Center for International Studies dedicated a day in April to improving the school and community in celebration of Global Youth Service Day.

Vancouver Mayor Tim Leavitt, a 1989 graduate of Fort, joined the students at an assembly to kick off the day’s events. Teens then volunteered for a number of activities, including clearing litter along the Burnt Bridge Creek Trail and at Park Hill Cemetery, writing positive messages in sidewalk chalk around the school, creating cards for hospital patients and visiting residents at the Van Mall retirement home.

Students also developed and participated in lunchtime contests that raised money for various charities. These events were designed to help foster students’ global competency, one of the goals of the Center for International Studies’ curriculum. Andrea Johnson, the school’s opportunity coordinator, organized Fort’s Global Youth Service Day. “I hope the students saw that everybody can take action and that it doesn’t have to be in a huge way,” said Johnson.

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