Whitewater students thank school officers with gift bags

The Whitewater Middle School Student Council showed appreciation for Fayette County school resource officers this year by providing each officer a gift bag filled with goodies. The student council sold locker organizers to students at the beginning of the school year to raise funds to buy the bags and items in them, which included Gatorade, tissues, hand sanitizer, peanuts, gum, and candy. Council members spent two weeks purchasing and filling the "thank you" bags for the officers. "The resource officers in our community are so important to the well being of our schools, and we wanted them to know how much we appreciate everything they do," says Cindy Wilson, seventh-grade world geography teacher and student council advisor. Whitewater Middle School's resource officer, Lawrence Vazquez, said, "I want to thank Mrs. Jessica Carroll, Mrs. Cindy Wilson, the Whitewater Middle Student Council, and anyone else who helped put together the goodie bags," he said. "The feedback was incredible, and comes at a particularly busy time for us being that the holidays are coming up and crime peaks this time of year. This was an extreme morale boost for them."