As Christmas approaches, many students of Noblesville have found their ways to help out in the community to make sure everyone has a wonderful winter season.
Whether it be Live to Serve’s coat and canned food drive or a student run book drive, the students at Noblesville High School are finding ways to give back and help younger students discover a love for reading.
Can/Coat Drive
After the success of previous years, the Student Government decided to do the canned food and coat drive again. Students can donate any coat or jacket along with canned foods in bins throughout the school that will be taken to shelters after the drive is over.
Junior Mitchell Brown, who is the Junior Class Vice President, is hopeful that the coat and can drive will have more donations than the year before and encourages the students of Noblesville High School to come to the Live 2 Serve packaging party.
“Bring in canned food and come to the packaging party, we all get together and pack the food up and have food, ourselves even, so come to that,” Brown said.
Book Drive
This winter students also decided conduct conduct a book drive through a drive called Project Turning Pages. In this drive, student, are able to bring in books throughout the week and donate them, and Then, after all the books are collected, the students involved will take them to fifth grade classes throughout the community and share the stories with younger students. Their goal is to encourage a passion for reading.
Junior Madison Gellinger believes that students should get involved with the Project Turning Pages because these days everything people do has to deal with technology, and she thinks that younger students should be reminded of how great just reading a book can be.
“The purpose of the book drive would be to advocate for reading in younger ages because especially in a world where psychology is so prevalent  that it over takes our world and we get away the essence of holding a book in your hands and reading,” Gellinger said.

Junior Melissa Baker is passionate about this project because she believes that students should have an outlet outside of school and that younger students should be passionate about being intelligent too, Even though the book drive ended December 5th, Baker believes the project goes further than just donating books.

“Because the book drive ends this Friday, you won’t be able to give books anymore but what you can do in your own lives is to look for younger kids you can mentor and show them how important reading is,” Baker said

Although both the canned food drive and book drive are over as of this week, there will be plenty of opportunities for students to help out in the community next semester too, such as a can tab fundraiser starting after the New Year.