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Jeff Hendrickson, Principal at Lanigan Elementary School recently honored students for demonstrating the Fulton City School District’s virtue of the month for December which is empathy.

Volunteers from the Sandy Creek National Honor Society spent several hours ensuring that hundreds of less fortunate children in the Sandy Creek area had a happy Christmas morning and their families had a wonderful holiday meal this year. The students, along with their advisor, Casey Vallance, volunteered their time and energy to help local community groups wrap and box the holiday goodwill.

Oswego Middle School Con Brio singers, accompanied by members of the OMS band treated residents of St. Francis Commons Assisted Living Residence to memorable holiday concert.

The Fulton Junior High School (FJHS) Friends of Rachel (FOR) Club as a group decided to help the Make-A-Wish Foundation of Central New York by participating in a Santa letter charitable fundraiser through Macy’s Department Stores.

Empathy is the ability to recognize and share someone else’s feelings and emotions and being sensitive to them. The students were honored during a recent Morning Express program at the school.

Students at Fairgrieve Elementary School wrote letters to Santa which will be delivered to the North Pole, via the local Macy’s Department stores, all to benefit the Make-A-Wish (MAW) Foundation of Central New York.

Students at Granby Elementary School wrote letters to Santa that will also benefit the Make-A-Wish Foundation of Central New York through the Macy’s Believe Campaign. Macy’s Department Stores will donate $1 to MAW for every letter to Santa they receive in their special “Believe” mailboxes, up to $1 million nationwide.

The students held a Spell-a-thon where they used pledge sheets to raise money for every correctly spelled word from a list of 100 words. Through the generosity of family and friends, each third grade student was given $15 to spend on a child they were shopping for.