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A home for the holidays? Adoption event part of Lincoln student council's community outreach
Lincoln Middle School student council members Tristen Mulliner-Ehrler and Madisyn Lambert, both in sixth grade, play with Spot Saturday during the Paws for a Cause adoption event the group held for Watermelon Mountain Ranch.
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RIO RANCHO — Spot, Luke, Doug and Duchess weren’t wanting for attention Saturday at Lincoln Middle School.
The four Watermelon Mountain Ranch dogs were being walked, held played with and more from members of the school’s student council during its Paws with a Cause adoption event.
“The student council has been planning monthly events for the community,” said Sativa Bailey, seventh-grade history teacher and student council advisor. “They held a food drive last week for Watermelon Mountain Ranch, and they brought the dogs out for the adoption event today.”
She said more than 700 pounds of food was collected for the rescue. That’s in addition to the very successful drive that Joe Harris Elementary, a feeder school to Lincoln, held that collected two tons of dog food.
“They were separate collections, but they were planned together,” Bailey said.
She also said that the student council has been going at full force this school year, with some of the previous events being a holiday market last month and a football frenzy with Eagle Ridge Middle School earlier in the fall, which she said was part of the council’s effort to engage with other schools in the district as well as the Rio Rancho community.
Additionally, she said, they spent two days and one night up in Santa Fe for a youth in government conference. There, Bailey said, the students got to propose bills for student government and experience working in the Roundhouse. “It was really cool,” she said.
Looking forward, she said the student council is planning on hosting some kind of Mother’s Day market as well as a “Shark Tank” style presentation where the students get to propose charities and fundraisers to support with a vote determining the winner.
Additionally, Bailey said, student council president Angelia Arriola has been invited to the high school youth in government conference in April.
“This year, our student council has done amazing things,” Bailey said of the group of 30 that meets two times per week. “They are here, rain or shine.”
