Friday, April 2nd, 2010
Photo by Janie Southard/The Daily Standard

Students in Art Bader's second grade class at Parkway Local Schools were enthusiastic about helping those at Mission of Hope school in Haiti. Class aide Lisa Obringer's cousin works at the mission and she has communicated with local students about life since the earthquake in January. A "helping box" filled with supplies for Haitian students was shipped this week. Bader and Obringer are the adults in the above photo.

Related online story:
ROCKFORD - Parkway second-graders learned about the problem and wanted help. So they sent questions to a teacher in Haiti, and she responded with information about the devastating earthquake Jan. 12, and the students began rounding up supplies to send to the Caribbean island. [More]
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