By By ERIN VER BERKMOES / Niles Daily Star
NILES - Students in Niles Senior High School's DECA Club will be doing their part to help those in need in our community during this holiday season.
The DECA Club tries to instill four values in its participants: leadership ability, civic consciousness, locational understanding and social intelligence.
The DECA Club is a group in which marketing students focus on a pathway in the business field.
The main focus of the club is to try and steer students in a direction they might be interested in later in life as a career. The students are able to compete in different categories of business at a state and international level each year.
Celeste Anthony, DECA faculty adviser, explained that each year as part of the civic consciousness of the club the group does many civic projects around the Niles community.
For the past four years, the group has helped the Niles Salvation Army by adopting families in need and providing them with a basket filled with all the things needed for a Thanksgiving dinner.
For the past few years DECA members have traveled throughout the City of Niles during trick or treat time and collected can goods.
Last year they were able to adopt four families with what they collected.
Anthony added the group would like to make community members aware that they will be out on Oct. 31 collecting the cans.
The students will be traveling in groups of two or three and at least one of them will be wearing a DECA T-shirt.
This years shirts are gray with blue and gold lettering and the DECA logo on the front.
While out collecting cans the students will also be doing their part to ensure the trick or treating time is a safe one. They will be watching out for children crossing the street or any other problems which might arise.