 | Detroit Lakes fifth-graders raise $2,127 in Walk for Wadena
(November 24, 2010 -- Detroit Lakes, MN) Every day last week,
most of the fifth graders at Roosevelt Elementary School in Detroit
Lakes (Jerry Hanson, principal) walked or ran a mile over their lunch
hour to raise money for Wadena-Deer Creek High School.
After Pam Kruger’s class read the book, “Walk for a Cause,” some started to ask if they could walk for their own cause.
“I said I’d help, but you will have to do the work,” Kruger said, who is
a Title 1 teacher at Roosevelt Elementary. And so they did.
Spearheading the “Walk for Wadena” fund-raiser were Katrina Okeson and
Alexis Carlson, two quiet-spoken fifth-graders with hearts as big as
Texas . For almost two weeks, Okeson and Carlson came to school early,
and used their lunchtime to organize the event.
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