DIXFIELD — Shredding paper may not seem like a good time, but a group of Dirigo High School juniors made the most of it during a service day May 1.

The third annual Caring Cougars Day provided high school students the opportunity to do community service.

Justin Fisette, Dirigo High School English teacher and an adviser for the 11th grade class, said there were about 16 projects, and groups spent part or most of the day volunteering, depending upon the scope of the project.

The students surveyed the public on things needed in the community and chose what they would like to do.

Fisette supervised six juniors around a large table in the Dixfield town manager’s office sorting materials to be shredded.

Owen McLain, one of the volunteers, said he likes to shred.

Town Manager Alicia Conn said the town doesn’t have the personnel for tasks like shredding old documents.

“Every now and then, we’ll get a volunteer,” Conn said, “but having a big group and getting it all done at once is fantastic.”

She said much of the material was from six months to a year old. They can only shred the material every six years, she said, “and some you have to keep forever.”