Cheyenne Students Give Back to the Community

            When most high school girls are perfecting their tans and high school boys are washing and waxing their vehicles in preparation for the annual rite of passage, high school prom, Cheyenne students are instead working to help others.

            Coinciding with their unusual John Deere prom theme called "True Colors," students are taking on two service projects as their way to give back to the community.

            Junior class members are collecting "Cans for the Community" in a friendly competitive food drive between two teams. The second project, a thank you dinner for heroes of the recent Roger Mills County wildfires, will feature a hamburger cookout at the student lunge on Monday, May 1 at 7:00pm.

            The canned food drive kicked off at the elementary school's Bear Beginnings with the John Deere "Green" and Yellow" teams challenging the elementary classes to bring canned food items.

            A city-wide canvas for cans will include a bag distribution on Thursday, April 27, with the pick-up of donated cans on Saturday, April 29. Contact any junior for your donation, or call 497.3371 ext. 114.

            "Cans for the Community" will be donated to the city's Circle of Care organization.

            The hamburger cookout is for members of all county fire departments, county grader crews, the sheriff's department, Highway Patrol, the Forestry Department, and any who served in any other capacity while fighting fires.