October 2013 Kids Make a Difference – Carter and Miles Thrash
Congratulations to our October winners,
Carter and Miles Thrash!
Carter and Miles Thrash make it a priority to do a service project every summer. This year they set up a drink stand outside of the RFW YMCA to raise money for Imagine No Malaria. Every $10 they raised covers the cost of distributing an insecticide treated mosquito net to affected areas in Africa. The Thrash boys collected $504.35 X 3 (matching funds from the boys’ grandparents) = $1,513.05. This equates to 151 mosquito nets! Thanks again to the R.F. Wilkinson Family YMCA, and its members who made this effort a success. (See pictures below).
In recognition of the Thrash boys’ efforts to make such a difference, School Crossing made a donation of $50 to Imagine No Malaria. As Carter said, “That’s five more nets!” (Carter is holding an example of one of the nets in the photo above with Sherry Phipps of School Crossing.)
Thank you also to our judges for selecting a winner: Dr. Stacey Cummings (Pediatrics Association of Williamsburg), Karen Dutro (Founder & Executive Director of NetworkWilliamsburg), Mary Minor (Retired Director of Child and Family Connection), and Bill O’Donovan (Williamsburg Charters and former Publisher of Virginia Gazette).
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