CRANBERRY TWP — The Cranberry Township Noon Rotary Club recently made a $500 donation to the Victim Outreach Intervention Center, or VOICe.

Curt Whipple, president of the club, presented VOICe representatives with the donation.

The center provides free and confidential services to individuals and families who are survivors of domestic violence, sexual violence and other abuse.

The contribution was coordinated by Shavonne Ayres, past president of the Rotary Club.

ADAMS TWP — Mars Area Elementary School's annual food drive collected 1,915 items to benefit The Lighthouse Foundation food bank in Middlesex Township.The May 20 to 24 collection was led by third-graders in Jessica Semler and Sarah Sondej's classes. The students are learning about the importance of volunteers and volunteering in their social studies lesson.

ADAMS TWP — Mars Centennial School fifth-grader Madalyn Osterman took seventh place in the 2018-19 Butler County DAREEssay Contest.DARE prepares students to act decisively, confidently and comfortably in difficult situations. The program asks that all fifth-graders make a pledge to remain drug-free and to write an essay about what they learned through the program.As a winner, Osterman received tickets to the Sen. John Heinz History Center, two “free skate” tickets for the UPMC Lemieux Sports Complex and a certificate for a free kids meal at Texas Roadhouse.

ADAMS TWP — Mars Middle School's Friends of Rachel Club collected $550 to benefit the family of Tony Cook, who is battling cancer.All proceeds will help to defer the cost of medical bills and travel expenses incurred by the family of Cook, an eighth-grader at South Allegheny Middle High School and the cousin of a Mars Middle School seventh-grader.As an infant, Cook was diagnosed with neurofibromatosis, and as a result has developed a rare and dangerous form of cancer called a peripheral nerve sheath tumor.