After being put on hold for two years due to COVID, South Callaway High School held its second service day Thursday in Fulton and Mokane.
The service day stemmed from the revamping of the student council, which broke the student council government into four different committees based on the school's acronym.
"We took those four letters, and we turned them into committees or subgroups for our student council government," said Olivia Brandt, library media specialist and student council advisor. "So, we have service, celebrations, hospitality and support."
Around 250 high school students split into groups and spent the morning providing service at more than 20 different locations.
"It was our service group's idea to start a service project, and then they decided, 'What if we just did a schoolwide service day once a year?' So that was the group that kind of started that," Brandt said.
Once every year, the service day takes place on a half-day of school.
Groups were sent to SERVE, Trends, the Callaway Senior Center, Riverview Nursing Center, the Mokane fairgrounds, the Mokane River Access and the Katy Trail.
A large group partnered with Fulton Parks and Rec and walked the trails and other areas throughout town picking up trash. Several groups stayed on the school's campus to perform service work.
At SERVE, students moved products, sorted makeup and clothing, packaged graham cracker crumbs and helped with the mail. At Trends, formerly the clothes cupboard, clothes were sorted.
"My favorite part of service day is the workers (at Trends). They're so nice," said Kaitlyn Stockdall, a South Callaway student.
A group of freshman boys walked from the splash pad at Memorial Park, up Business 54 and to the Super Clean Carwash and collected trash. At the Callaway Senior Center, window washing and other light cleaning duties were completed.
"They're doing a great job," Betty Woodson, a volunteer at the Callaway Senior Center, said of the students.