I.J. Holton Intermediate student Nadia Richards reaches for a carnation to give to a resident at St. Marks Nursing Home Thursday morning.

St. Marks Nursing Home resident Victoria Schulte smiles as she’s brought to tears after she was given a carnation by an I.J. Holton Intermediate student Thursday morning.

Evelyn and Kenneth Heimer talk with I.J. Holton Intermediate students Ricardo Jacobo Sanchez, Nadia Richards and Alex Schuster as the students handed out carnations Thursday morning at St. Marks Luthern Home.

Carnations were handed out Thursday for Valentine’s Day by I.J. Holton Intermediate students to residents of St. Marks Nursing Home.