On November 2nd, 2016, proudly holding fake plastic candles that gave faint flickers in front of parents and peers, 12 new members were inducted into the National Honor Society. With a total of 25 students, the group is seeking to become positive role models of society and to hopefully leave their mark on this planet. The night’s keynote speaker was John Peterson, who had attended Cannon Falls High School, and gifted the members with intuitive advice. He compared life to a train, stating that although graduation is a big part of a student’s life, it is not the only stop that will be made. The train will keep chugging forward along the tracks in search of other stops. The induction ceremony came to a close with 25 bright faces stuffing their faces with scrumptious cookies.

Over the past three months NHS has participated in a highway ditch clean up, ringing the bell for the Salvation Army, the local food shelf drive, and much more. “It’s been a good year so far and we raised a few thousand dollars for the food drive. The blood drive is coming up in March which will hopefully have a big turnout. We are just looking to have another successful year,” Carlton Lindow, NHS’s president said with a chuckle. This years vice president is Grant Schlichting who next year will take Lindow’s position. Recently the NHS constructed a golf hole out of toilet paper for the PTO mini golf event, hosted at the Cannon Falls Elementary school. Kaly Banks and Grant Schlichting represented the chapter as they worked together to build a spectacular NHS themed golf hole. Complete with multiple other obstacles built by other groups/ organizations, the mini golf event proved to be another town favorite once again.

The next big event for Cannon Falls’ NHS chapter is the Blood drive. Last year had a favorable outcome with 73 donors who gave 55 units of blood, which helped save 165 people’s lives. “We have been doing this, probably close to ten years,” proudly states Deb Klegin, one of the two supervisors of NHS. The blood drive will be held on Wednesday, March 1st in the auditorium. NHS will be trying to beat last year’s record so everyone from the squeamish to the fierce, come surrender your veins filled with precious plasma to a good cause.