Teens Leave 250 Signs Thanking Healthcare Workers At Northside

ATLANTA, GA — At the Northside Hospital in Atlanta this week, nurses and frontline workers received a surprise gesture of thanks — precisely 250 of them. On Tuesday, a group of high schoolers from Wesleyan Schools planted numerous hand-drawn lawn signs along the roads to employees take to the hospital parking lots.

The project, "Signs for the Frontlines," is credited to Wesleyan Junior Carson Schiller, who invited students in grades K-12 to submit artwork "demonstrating their support for the heroes working day in and day out at Northside Hospital here in Atlanta," according to the school.

"I got the idea because a good family friend is a nurse at Northside,” Schiller said in the school's news release. "Knowing how hard they are all working, I wanted to find a way to show them that their community really appreciates their hard work."

Schiller got plenty of buy-in from her school. One parent, Gregg Stopher, heard about the project and offered to print the students' artwork on 250 lawn signs, free of charge.

With permission from the hospital, Schiller and other students distributed the signs on Tuesday, leaving messages including, "Thank You Healthcare Heroes," and "Superheroes In Scrubs."

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