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During the month of February, Mount Shasta High School will be participating in the Pennines for Patients campaign. Pennies for Patients is a non-profit organization that raises money to find the cure for childhood leukemia and lymphoma. The organization has raised millions of dollars over the past several years, and two MSHS students, Lexi Cheula and Jennifer Rubio, will be coordinating the program locally as part of their senior project.
To help support MSHS and Pennies for Patients, the community is invited to donate spare change in donation boxes that are located in local businesses in Mount Shasta.
MSHS is also dedicating their last home basketball game on Friday, Feb. 10 to Patrick Robinson, a classmate who passed away two years ago from Hodgkin’s Lymphoma. In his memory, students are asking game attendants to donate extra change to help others like Patrick who are still fighting against cancer, Cheula and Rubio said.
Patrick was diagnosed in February 2005 at the age of nine. He loved math, designing things and planned to attend Caltech to become an engineer. He loved his pets and reading. His mother, Eveline, says he had quite the collection, Cheula and Rubio said. Patrick fought his disease for five years but fell to Hodgkin’s Lymphoma in 2010, his freshman year of high school. MSHS and the community will always remember Patrick and his incredible strength.
Cheula and Rubio will also be coordinating collection points at Sisson and Mount Shasta Elementary Schools, said principal Kale Riccomini at a district board meeting on Monday evening.
“Now it is up to us to help young people like Patrick who have been touched by Leukemia and Lymphoma,” Cheula and Rubio said. “Be sure to bring some change to the basketball game. Every penny helps!”
For more information about Pennies for Patients, contact Cheula and Rubio at Mount Shasta High School by calling 926-2614. You can also watch a video they created on You Tube at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbV8fS7KufE
During the month of February, Mount Shasta High School will be participating in the Pennines for Patients campaign. Pennies for Patients is a non-profit organization that raises money to find the cure for childhood leukemia and lymphoma. The organization has raised millions of dollars over the past several years, and two MSHS students, Lexi Cheula and Jennifer Rubio, will be coordinating the program locally as part of their senior project.
To help support MSHS and Pennies for Patients, the community is invited to donate spare change in donation boxes that are located in local businesses in Mount Shasta.
MSHS is also dedicating their last home basketball game on Friday, Feb. 10 to Patrick Robinson, a classmate who passed away two years ago from Hodgkin’s Lymphoma. In his memory, students are asking game attendants to donate extra change to help others like Patrick who are still fighting against cancer, Cheula and Rubio said.
Patrick was diagnosed in February 2005 at the age of nine. He loved math, designing things and planned to attend Caltech to become an engineer. He loved his pets and reading. His mother, Eveline, says he had quite the collection, Cheula and Rubio said. Patrick fought his disease for five years but fell to Hodgkin’s Lymphoma in 2010, his freshman year of high school. MSHS and the community will always remember Patrick and his incredible strength.
Cheula and Rubio will also be coordinating collection points at Sisson and Mount Shasta Elementary Schools, said principal Kale Riccomini at a district board meeting on Monday evening.
“Now it is up to us to help young people like Patrick who have been touched by Leukemia and Lymphoma,” Cheula and Rubio said. “Be sure to bring some change to the basketball game. Every penny helps!”
For more information about Pennies for Patients, contact Cheula and Rubio at Mount Shasta High School by calling 926-2614. You can also watch a video they created on You Tube at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbV8fS7KufE
