San Bruno family will benefit from local drive
When students at Southside School learned of the San Bruno fire
that started after a gas pipeline exploded Sept. 9, they wanted to
do something to help out. One local student’s family knew a family
whose lives were turned upside down by the fire.
San Bruno family will benefit from local drive
When students at Southside School learned of the San Bruno fire that started after a gas pipeline exploded Sept. 9, they wanted to do something to help out. One local student’s family knew a family whose lives were turned upside down by the fire.
Wendy Abercrombie, an eighth-grade teacher and the advisor of the student body, worked with the students to organize a penny drive. The students placed collection containers in each classroom and asked their schoolmates to bring in spare change.
“They brought this together in one day,” Abercrombie said.
The teachers thought the students would collect $100 or so. But when they counted the money, they had gathered more than $1,000.
“We had 236 pounds of change,” said Eric Johnson, the principal of Southside School.
The students composed a letter to the family to be delivered along with the check.
