Woodside Students Donate Their Chore Money For Needy Families

SUSSEX, WI — For many children, doing chores for allowance money is ... well ... a chore. For the students at Woodside Elementary School, it was a chance to help people in need.

For the sixth consecutive year, Woodside students were asked to donate money they earned by doing chores at home. With more than $2,000 collected, 30 parent volunteers shopped for groceries to fill the tubs.

Items included a frozen turkey, bag of stuffing, jar of gravy, white and sweet
potatoes, fresh vegetables, bread, canned cranberries, a fresh pie, beverages, appetizers such as
crackers and nuts, along with an aluminum roasting pan. All of the items were put into a large
sturdy storage bin and delivered to families.

“This has been an extremely rewarding service project for all the students,” said Rayelle Simonsen,
a Woodside teacher who helped organize the collection. “It’s amazing how just doing a few chores
around the house feeds 35 families.”

Notre Dame is a middle school in Milwaukee that serves Hispanic girls in grades five through eight.
The school’s academic outcomes includes a 98 percent high school graduation rate with 82 percent
of its students continuing on to college. About 94 percent of the families live at or below poverty
level.

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