Harvey School Students Raise Money for Wounded Warrior Project

The following announcement is from The Harvey School:

Veteran’s Day for most kids means a welcomed day off from school, but for Harvey School seventh-grader Emma Spada and some of her fellow schoolmates, it meant spending the day conducting a bake sale in front of Weinstein’s Pharmacy in the village of Katonah to help raise money for the Wounded Warrior Project. The girls made $500.25 in sales Tuesday.

For Emma and her mother, Tricia Freeman of Katonah, this year’s event was the fourth year in a row that they organized and conducted what they have dubbed as the Annual Veteran’s Day Bake Sale. Over the years they have raised over $2000 for the Wounded Warrior Project, a veterans service organization that offers a variety of programs, service and events for wounded veterans of U.S. military actions following the events of Sept. 11, 2001.

Freeman says the girls had to step up their efforts Tuesday on a quiet day in Katonah. “The town was a little more sleepy than usual, but it was a beautiful day so they took their signs and walked up and down Main Street to attract more foot traffic to our table, and in the end we did better than we did last year. We are especially grateful to Weinstein’s for always letting us set up outside of their storefront.”

After the sale, Emma and her friends, Katonah’s Lexi Wierdsma, Maelani Groff and Lily Drude, along with Abby Sirota, Kayla Johnson and Victoria Cartularo, brought the leftover baked goods to the nearby American Legion Hall, where they personally thanked the veterans in attendance for their service to the country.

Photo: Left to right, Harvey School students Emma Spada of Katonah, Lexi Wierdsma of Katonah, Abby Sirota of Stamford, Conn., Kayla Johnson of Yonkers, Maelani Groff of Katonah, Victoria Cartularo of White Plains and Lily Drude of Katonah. Set up in front of Weinstein’s Pharmacy in the village of Katonah, The girls raised more than $500 in a bake sale for the Wounded Warrior Project Tuesday. Emma Spada and her mother, Tricia Freeman, began the Veteran’s Day Bake Sale four years ago and have raised more than $2,000 since. Photo credit: Contributed