June 9, 2008

Earlier in the year, students in the 6th Grade at O'Keeffe Middle School held a coin drive to benefit the Dane County Humane Society. Homeroom classes competed against each other, and, after only two weeks, students collected $966.71! Students in Ms. Burdick's homeroom collected the most money. When they learned that the total collected was close to $1000, Ms. Burdick's class voted to donate funds that would have been used for a celebratory pizza party to the total. Pictured here is Ms. Burdick's class, 6th Grade Student Council, four "special project organizers," Kara Moore and Gayle Viney from the Humane Society. Also pictured in Lyle the dog, who was available for adoption.