Parker School’s student council raised nearly $1,200 this year for three different charities. Parker School’s student council raised nearly $1,200 this year for three different charities. ADVERTISING Of the funds, $850 was generated from this year’s third annual Parker LoveFest,
Parker School’s student council raised nearly $1,200 this year for three different charities.
Of the funds, $850 was generated from this year’s third annual Parker LoveFest, the brainchild of Nathalie Whitfield, a 2011 graduate and former student council vice president.
“She came up with the idea of celebrating Valentine’s Day for an entire week, as a week of love, reaching out to our own community and the larger world,” said Parker English teacher and student council advisor Gillian Culff. “We have raised money each year for different charities through spirited food sales at lunch (such as pink cupcakes, etc.), LoveFest T-shirt sales and a benefit concert. This year, our two (LoveFest) charities were Friends of the Children’s Justice Center and Japan tsunami relief.”
Tim Ashcraft, president of the Friends of the Children’s Justice Center, visited the Parker School campus to accept the $425 check for his organization, which helps children in West Hawaii who have been traumatized by witnessing a violent crime. The organization provides therapeutic rehabilitation to help those kids heal from emotional trauma.
The remaining $425 LoveFest funds will go to the Rikuzentakata City School Building Fund in Japan, to aid in the rebuilding of schools damaged/destroyed in the tsunami of March, 2011, in memory of Monty Dickson. Dickson, an uncle of former Parker students Merrin and Pearl Dickson, was teaching English there when he died in the tsunami.
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