Pennies for Patients has already collected almost $3,000 to help Leukemia Society

By Jack Tirsch, Staff Reporter

COLONIAL LIBRARY -- The Student Government has been counting money collected to donate to the charity that helps leukemia. One of the goals of the Student Government is too help people.

At deadline, Colonial School had raised $2,971 for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society.

Class representative Georgia Russello from 4M said, "We separate the bills and the checks, and we keep the coins in the boxes, and then Mrs. Norman takes all of the money to the bank."

Colonial is "pretty good" about donating money, said Tisya Sharma, class representative from 4M. "For some reason we found a lot of foreign coins, so we didn't count them."

Mrs. Kim  Norman, the Colonial librarian and Student Government advisor, has meetings with the Student Government every Tuesday to count the money, and then on the next Monday Mrs. Wilson announces the amount of money each class has brought in.

“Students collect spare change to support the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society’s mission: To cure leukemia, lymphoma, Hodgkin’s disease and myeloma, and to improve the quality of life of patients and their families,” Andrea Bent Fields of the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society said in a statement.

This story also appears on the Colonial Times website.