JonInMiddleGA
01-22-2005, 04:59 PM
... an actual nice, decent, just regular feelgood story.
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20050122/D87PC14G0.html
LIMA, Mont. (AP) - Eight high school students who gave their senior class trip money to a teacher with cancer will be able to travel after all, thanks to donations from people who were touched by the students' generosity.
The eight graduating seniors at Lima High School in southwest Montana gave $5,000 in December to Karla McGraw, a teacher and volleyball coach diagnosed with advanced breast cancer to help her with medical expenses.
When Lima resident Ben Yarbrough heard about the students' donation, he set up a fund that has since grown to more than $8,300, thanks to donations from as far away as Florida and New York City.
"It's just been so amazing," senior class president Tahnee Stosich told The Montana Standard for a story published Saturday. "It was a complete shock to all of us when they first told us we may still be able to go on our trip."
More than $3,000 in the fund came from high school students in the nearby town Dillon, who raised the money by selling cookie dough.
"It seems like every day we read about kids getting into trouble," said Dave Marsh, a resident who told Dillon students about the generosity of their peers in Lima and suggested the fund-raiser.
"We always hear the negative, but when things like this happen, you know that our kids really have a lot of good in them, especially these kids in Montana," he said.
The students - many of whom have never seen the ocean - wanted to visit a coastal Oregon town.
A man donated airline tickets, a hotel cut $1,000 from the price of their rooms, and they received free tickets to a Portland Trail Blazers basketball game. The eight students were also invited to travel to Salt Lake City in March to shoot a few hoops with the Utah Jazz before watching a game.
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20050122/D87PC14G0.html
LIMA, Mont. (AP) - Eight high school students who gave their senior class trip money to a teacher with cancer will be able to travel after all, thanks to donations from people who were touched by the students' generosity.
The eight graduating seniors at Lima High School in southwest Montana gave $5,000 in December to Karla McGraw, a teacher and volleyball coach diagnosed with advanced breast cancer to help her with medical expenses.
When Lima resident Ben Yarbrough heard about the students' donation, he set up a fund that has since grown to more than $8,300, thanks to donations from as far away as Florida and New York City.
"It's just been so amazing," senior class president Tahnee Stosich told The Montana Standard for a story published Saturday. "It was a complete shock to all of us when they first told us we may still be able to go on our trip."
More than $3,000 in the fund came from high school students in the nearby town Dillon, who raised the money by selling cookie dough.
"It seems like every day we read about kids getting into trouble," said Dave Marsh, a resident who told Dillon students about the generosity of their peers in Lima and suggested the fund-raiser.
"We always hear the negative, but when things like this happen, you know that our kids really have a lot of good in them, especially these kids in Montana," he said.
The students - many of whom have never seen the ocean - wanted to visit a coastal Oregon town.
A man donated airline tickets, a hotel cut $1,000 from the price of their rooms, and they received free tickets to a Portland Trail Blazers basketball game. The eight students were also invited to travel to Salt Lake City in March to shoot a few hoops with the Utah Jazz before watching a game.