Cal Area students raise thousands in spare change for cancer research

By TAYLOR BROWN
tbrown@yourmvi.com
Middle school students in the California Area School District are dedicated to making a difference.
A group of seventh- and eighth-grade students recently presented a check for $10,546 to the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society.
For three weeks, the students collected “spare change” to raise money for life-saving cancer research.
Homerooms in the middle school had a friendly competition to see who could raise the most money and upper grade levels, five through eight, upped the stakes with a fun twist. In addition to coins, older students were able to “sabotage” other homerooms by depositing bills into rival collection jars that counted toward the fundraiser – but against their homerooms total for competition purposes.
Particularly for Josh Pollock’s seventh-grade classroom and Mauree Krofina’s eighth-grade class, the rivalry was particularly heated.
“Her students were my students last year when we won first place,” Pollock said. “So we had a pretty good rivalry going on.”

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