May 21, 2021
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Officials from St. John Paul the Great Academy in Torrington presented a check for $3,076 to St. Jude’s Children’s Hospital with proceeds from an annual math-solving exercise by the Catholic elementary school’s intermediate grade students.
Jennifer Nypert, intermediate grade teacher, presented the check to Kristin Raymond, who is carrying on her late father Tim Driscoll’s annual local telethon for St. Jude’s.
Nypert said students earn pledge money from their families for problems solved in St. Jude’s annual Math-A-Thon.
Raymond said the school has participated in the fund-raising effort every year since her father founded the telethon 42 years ago. She said most years, the kids also perform in the telethon, though COVID-19 prevented that this year.