One in a Million

By Kaitlyn and Kenzie

You support, you help, you have a voice for your community. You hear on the news and on TV that it’s only one in a million well turns out, our community is the one that happens to have two young, talented, hard-working men get diagnosed with cancer. They’re a part of are school and our community. We knew we had to raise awareness. We were speaking out and helping the cause, we were wearing orange and yellow shirts to school to support them. We were helping their families, posting on social media. We can bring the good out of this and come together in community.

Ryan Smith has Leukemia Cancer and yes it’s difficult but it must help a lot how our school is supporting him. Our student section at the High School football game is wearing orange to show support for Ryan. Many sports teams are wearing orange somehow to support Ryan. Our field hockey team wore orange ribbons and people have orange bracelets. The girl’s soccer team is selling whoopie pies for him and his friends set up a go fund me page. There is so much going on to help him it’s crazy. It’s amazing how our school came together for one single person going through a rough time. That shows a lot about our school, it shows that we support one another and that we will do whatever we can to help students in a difficult situation. 

Ryan isn’t our only student fighting. Tobias Leman is also going through close to the same thing that Ryan is. The entire community came together and wore yellow and made posters for him. He has been very strong throughout the obstacle in his life right now. The community is supporting him and there is definitely good coming out of this. It’s amazing how the support around us is so great that other schools are starting to make a difference too and are supporting him. We know he can get over this obstacle in his life and feel that that the community is supporting him.

Our community has come together to support two individuals who are going through a rough time. We’re proud of the way we responded to this, it shows a lot about L-S. If it were me it would be very comforting knowing that there are thousands of students are thinking of me. It’s pretty amazing that our school is making bracelets and doing so much to support the two of them. We know they will stay strong through this rough obstacle in their life and we know our community has their back every step of the way.