TURNER – Leavitt Area High School sophomores, all 192 of them, are looking for some Earth Day volunteering to do on April 13.

Any organization that needs help between 9 a.m. and 1 p.m. on that day should contact the school, said Assistant Principal Wendy Harvey.

Every year, all of Leavitt’s sophomores do community service on the annual Make a Difference Day. “It’s something we encourage and part of what we believe we should instill in our students,” Harvey said. But this year the fall event was rained out.

The community service was rescheduled for April, so Leavitt decided to try to coordinate it with Earth Day. Earth Day is April 22.

Ideally, Harvey would like her students to perform community service in Turner, Leeds or Greene, but students also help out in the Lewiston-Auburn area, she said. “Specifically, we’d like the community service to be tied to Earth Day kinds of things, a cleanup or recycling.”

Typically, the school’s sophomores get involved in 10 to 12 projects, such as helping out at the Good Shepherd Food-Bank, or at local schools or cemeteries. Leavitt would like to broaden the students’ volunteerism, and let other groups know students can help.

To find out more about student volunteers, call or e-mail Harvey at 225-3533 or [email protected]; or call school volunteer coordinator Stacey Pellerin at 225-3620.

– Bonnie Washuk