From left, St. Mary of the Knobs fifth-graders Chloe Sprigler, Regan Elias and Brigid Welch work on care packages for 12 Indiana National guardsmen deployed in Afghanistan in the school gymnasium on Friday morning. One of the guardsmen is Capt. Adam Paris, the son of their teacher, Kimberly Paris, and they are sending the care packages as well as a banner to mark the halfway point of his year-long deployment. Staff photo by Christopher Fryer