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Sunday, May 12, 2013

East Penn School District

Emmaus High: Let's 'Give Back' to Boston Marathon Victims

The Emmaus High School Student Government Association plans running festival on May 19 to benefit victims of Boston Marathon bombing.

Special to Patch by Nina Rowan, Emmaus High School sophomore By now, most of America is all too familiar with the gritty details of the tragic Boston Marathon Bombing that occurred on April 15th of this year. Well, it’s less than month later, and already Emmaus High School is doing something to help. The high school’s efforts to help the victims of the tragedy began few weeks ago, when the EHS student government started selling “Boston Strong” t-shirts to students and faculty. When they realized what a success the t-shirt fundraiser was, they knew they needed to do something bigger to benefit those affected by the bombing. On Sunday, May 19th, the EHS student government will be hosting a running festival entitled “Giving Back Around the …

Tuesday, January 15, 2013

East Penn School District

Emmaus High Students to Give Blood in Emergency Drive

Forty-two Emmaus High School students are scheduled to donate blood in an Emergency Miller-Keystone Blood Drive to take place in the large courtyard at the high school from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Wednesday.

Forty-two Emmaus High School students are scheduled to give blood on Wednesday as part of an emergency blood drive that will happen in the large courtyard at the high school from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. This week’s blood drive, run by the high school Student Government Association (SGA) in conjunction with Miller-Keystone Blood Center, is “student-only,” according to Michael Mihalik, EHS science teacher and SGA adviser. “It’s just a student emergency blood drive,” Mihalik writes in an email message to Emmaus Patch. “We're not having a full-blown blood drive like we usually have, as we'll wait on that for May. “On Wednesday, we only have 42 available slots and they have all been filled in by current students,” he writes. Miller-Keystone Blood …

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