STERLING – Thanks to a group of high school students, some members of the community had one less thing to worry about on a snowy Wednesday afternoon.

Building trades students from the Whiteside Area Career Center have been shoveling snow-filled driveways out of the goodness of their hearts for the last few days – and the last 12 years.

Every winter, instructor John Gehrke has his students hop on a bus and drive around town, where they perpetrate random acts of kind shoveling while on their way to and from the house they are building, which this year is in Rock Falls.