Caroline Slick and Bailey Travis - two fifth-grade students in one of teacher Mike Anderson's leadership classes at Catharine Blaine School - recently wrapped up a donation drive for pets at the Animal Shelter on 15th Avenue West. The idea, Anderson explained, was to come up with a community-service project. "That was the idea the girls came up with," he said of the donation drive.
But first they checked with the shelter to see what was needed and were told food, toys and blankets for the pets would be perfect, Anderson said.
"And they talked to all the [first- to fourth-grade] classes."
The classes were asked to buy the requested items, and 238 of the items were collected in about a month's time, he said. Slick and Travis also got the word out by posting notices on the bulletin board, on posters and with an ad in the school newspaper, Anderson added.
Collecting the most, 152 items, was Carol Westlake's second-grade class.
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