(12-20-24) Kevin Draiss from Our Home’s Family Resource Center is pictured accepting a check for $1,000 from Tri Star Career Compact’s Senior Med Prep students. The students held a thanksgiving meal fundraiser with all the proceeds going to the Mercer County Angel Tree Project. The Angel Tree project provides Christmas gifts for children from income-eligible families in Mercer County.

Med Prep seniors include from Celina – Kathryn Braun,  Hailey Garrity, Alana Hernandez, Ivan Jatios, Madyson Parker,  and Brady Steinbrunner; from Coldwater – Mason Ayers, Morgan Blasingame, Riley Eales, Avery Knapke, Natalie Vogel, and Emiko Ysawa;  from Fort Recovery – Calleigh Crabtree and Amber Dirksen;  from Marion Local – Elise Heitkamp, Mackenzie Bohman, and Carmen Price; from New Bremen – Alexandra Kremer, Whitney Tangeman and Lilly Wilker;  from St. Henry – Alanna Mescher and Maddie Steinlage; and from St. Marys – Jordyn Blausey, Reghan Puthoff, Bailey Rohrbach, and Audrey Wycuff.  Med Prep instructors are Brenda Speck and Annette Albers.