FARMINGTON – Young people in many places are performing acts of kindness. You just don’t hear about them all the time.

Seniors at Mt. Blue High School in Farmington spent Wednesday helping senior citizens. Rather than putting 5,000 crickets in a school hallway or putting Vaseline on doorknobs, teacher Sean Minear said students showed a generous spirit toward others in place of their senior class prank.

One group of students completed yard work for an older couple no longer able to mow its steep terrain.

Two students going into the military visited a nursing home and spoke with veterans, who talked about their time in boot camp and shared other stories, Minear said.

Members of the football team visited residents of a nursing home to say goodbye. They had visited the residents at the beginning of the football season.

Some put flags on markers, others turned out to support members of a sporting team.

The list goes on, Minear said.

Right before commencement exercises started last Saturday at Livermore Falls High School, graduating senior Jenna Ranger of Livermore Falls presented teacher Anne Weatherbee with a framed picture she had painted.

Ranger said she had a difficult time in Weatherbee’s class, but that the teacher often took time to help Ranger overcome roadblocks.

“I gave her that because I really learned a lot from her,” Ranger said.

She painted a hand with two fingers forming a V to make a peace sign among patriotic colors.

“With everything going on in the United States, I thought it would be nice,” Ranger said.