Last week was all about giving back for a group of students at Warren Central Junior High School.

The newly founded Junior Beta Club at the school celebrated National Beta Club week by honoring different parts of the school each day. Tuesday, the nine members of the club took food and drinks to the office staff, librarians and the nurse. Then Wednesday they delivered refreshments to each of the teachers.

They wrapped up the week by honoring the cafeteria workers and custodians Thursday and doing a school beautification project Friday.

“I wanted an environment where people who work hard for their achievements and want to help their community can come together,” seventh-grader Sidney Dimmette said of why she joined the Beta Club. “We’ve been working on our school so we went around and gave our nice office staff some drinks and food and yesterday we gave our teachers refreshments and went around the whole schools. I hope for us to branch out into our community and have fun while doing it.”

Jacob Bryant, a seventh-grader, said he enjoyed honoring the different people at the school because, “we got to see the teachers smile.”

The Junior Beta Club at Warren Central Junior officially started Jan. 22 and they were honored as a National Beta School of Merit for accepting seventh- and eighth-graders into the club.

The students were selected by their teachers and had to fill out an application and sign that they would uphold the values of Beta Club including achieving high academic standards, serve as leaders in their school and commit to community service.

“I want to see leaders,” club sponsor Maxine White said of why she started the club. “I am always telling them, be a leader not a follower. That is what I want them to do. I want them to lead not follow. We have a few that have to be reminded what they signed, but for the most part they are pretty dedicated.

“They had to sign and say that if they don’t live up to the Beta Club creed, they can be removed from Beta Club.”

The club meets once a month and they plan to take a field trip later this school year and start doing community service projects outside the school, although they haven’t decided what those projects will be.

“I wanted to help the community around me,” eighth-grader Jason Ashley said of why he joined the club. “We’ve given drinks and food and refreshments to everybody at the school almost. Beta Club means a lot to mean because I am helping my community.”