Plaudits to Parade Magazine, which regularly highlights high school All-American teams ranging across the spectrum of sports. Now it has added an “All-American Service Team.” As in economics, education, health, environment and community.
And congratulations to one of our own, Blake O’Connor of Freedom HS, for earning All-American honors in education. O’Connor organized a children’s-book drive and recruited classmates to read to second-graders at low-income Tampa schools. The 18-year-old also hosted a Dr. Seuss-themed festival–with hopes that it could become a literacy-promoting model for other communities.