Edmonds School Board selects interim superintendent, discusses school-based health center
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Edmonds School Board set to pick an interim superintendent Tuesday
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MY EDMONDS NEWS Posted: April 14, 2021
Jonah shows off his Tubie Friend. (Photo courtesy Tubie Friends)
Nonprofit organization Tubie Friends provides customized stuffed animals with feeding and other types of medical tubes attached to them to help make life easier for children who rely on such devices. The group will be holding its annual fundraising auction to benefit those charitable efforts later this month.
Shannon Gonsalves is a teacher at Brier Elementary School and helped to co-found the charity along with two other mothers who all had children with medical conditions that required using feeding tubes. She said of its origins, “We had created them for our own kids and then other parents who were in our online support group started asking, ‘Well how do I get one for my kids?’” After initially telling those parents how to craft them “it dawned on us that new families to tube feeding don’t have spare supplies yet to make their own,” Gonsalves said.