Stout Family donation helps ACS annual DC trip
Special to The Alliance Review
Each year, the top eighth-graders at Alliance Middle School have the opportunity to visit Washington, D.C.
During the April 13 parent meeting at the school, the families received a big surprise Jim and Kathy Stout will pay a portion of the cost of the trip, which the students families normally pay.
Coastal Pet Products founder and owner Jim Stout said he received a letter from the trip s coordinator, Keith McGeehen, seeking donations.
Stout was interested in learning more about the four-day trip and what it would entail for the students, so he requested a meeting. After hearing about the experiences the students would have during the trip, he and his wife, Kathy, decided to pay for the families portion of the trip for all the students who will be attending.