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Adopt-A-Family at Richards

Holiday Spirit Week includes staff, Leo Club, Student Council buy gifts for local needy families.

Holiday spirit flows through Richards High School this week with choir and band concerts, a staff appreciation breakfast, a staff cookie baking contest, and more.

But perhaps the Adopt-A-Family project best captures Bulldog Nation this week. Richards staff members, Leo Club (high school affiliate of the Lions Club of Oak Lawn, and Student Council bought gifts for local needy families.

And these Bulldogs stayed late Tuesday to wrap them.

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