February 12, 2021 By Jon King / jking@whmi.com
A weeklong friendly rivalry between classrooms has turned into a big win in the fight against homelessness, as students at St. Patrick School in Brighton raised more than $10,000 for the Severe Weather Network, an organization that shelters homeless adults in Livingston County.
As part of the celebration of Catholic Schools Week, the students were challenged to âPenny Warsâ - in which each grade collected spare change in a jar outside the classroom. In addition to earning points by filling up their own jars with coins, students could strategically use paper money to âsabotageâ other classrooms to deduct points from their total. That competition resulted in more than $8,500 in donations from the junior kindergarten through 8th-grade classes, with the schoolâs Christian Service Committee adding in another $2000 to bring the total to $10,539.73.