Clare-Gladwin Area School receives Michigan Community Action Award

The Clare-Gladwin Area School, a program of Clare-Gladwin RESD, received a Michigan Community Action Award on April 30 at the Capitol in Lansing in recognition of the school’s acts of service to the region as a result of a twenty-year partnership with Mid Michigan Community Action Agency.  For the last two decades, groups of student volunteers from the Area School have helped Mid Michigan Community Action Agency pack boxes for food programs, assisting the agency in keeping up with the local food security needs. With the students’ dedication, the agency packs 400-800 boxes daily.

Also known as the RESD Packing Crew, the Area School and its students are one five Michigan Community Action Award recipients selected statewide for 2015. Five staff members and six students from the Area School traveled to Lansing last month to accept the award in the Rotunda of the Capitol.

“It was a once in a lifetime opportunity to be recognized for all the hard work that the students and staff have done for more than 20 years,” said Area School Principal Mike Simon. “I would also like to thank Sharla Mitchell of Mid Michigan Community Action Agency for her work with our students and for nominating us for the award.”