Teen volunteers to help renovate Lynn school

LYNN – This Sunday, North Shore Teen Initiative (NSTI) will gather more than 100 teen volunteers from around the North Shore to help renovate the Hood Elementary School in Lynn.NSTI’s team of volunteers will meet at the school along with 20+ adult volunteers to garden, paint murals, install and decorate reading benches and create mosaic stepping stones. Teens from the NER BBYO chapter and SMARTY YAiSH will join NSTI to help make a significant impact in one afternoon. The Lynn Department of Public Works and The Food Project will loan tools for the day and stepping stone “molds” have been generously donated by Cindy’s Pizza, Captain Pizza, Hot Cheese Pizza and Tony Lena’s.Additionally, Derek Sheckman Teen Leadership Award recipient Olivia Forman (Swampscott) will join the J-Serve volunteers at the Hood School at 4:15 p.m. to talk about her community project A New World of Difference: a World Without Hate.NSTI and its partners have invited Mayor Kennedy, Congressman John Tierney, state Rep. Lori Ehrlich, who will be attending, Charlie Baker, who will be attending, state Sen. Thomas McGee and Elizabeth Warren to the North Shore Teen Initiative’s fifth J-Serve on this international day of service for Jewish youth.J-Serve is made possible by continued funding from Combined Jewish Philanthropies (CJP) and BBYO and sponsored by NSTI, NER BBYO, J-Serve, SMARTY, YAiSH, Congregation Shirat Hayam and Temple Emanu-El.To learn more about J-Serve, visit www.jserve.org. To learn more about all of NSTI’s exciting opportunities for social action, community collaboration, leadership development, travel and fun, visit www.nsteeninitiative.org and www.facebook.com/nsti18, email at [email protected] or call 781.244.5544.