Vance County Schools raised nearly $7,000 for Red Cross tsunami relief efforts, and Vance’s Red Cross coordinator, Rick Norwood, delivered the reward Monday night at the Board of Education meeting.
Norwood handed out heavy, notebook-size plaques to the school system as a whole for raising $6,947.28, submitted to the Red Cross on March 9, and to each school for the amount it raised. (The total included $501 not accounted for Monday night in the school-by-school breakdown.)
“This was an initiative that was started by the students. They called and asked could they do this,” Superintendent Norm Shearin said. He said the school system doesn’t like to use students to raise money for outside causes, but he gained the Board of Education’s approval for the tsunami relief effort because it was an idea that came from the children.
“We certainly appreciate it,” Norwood said. “It says a lot about our school system. I’m proud to be a part of it.”
The schools and the amounts their students raised, according to Norwood’s presentation:
* Aycock Elementary, $1,761.87.
* Zeb Vance Elementary, $1,733.02.
* Dabney Elementary, $861.
* Southern Vance High, $642.15.
* Pinkston Street Elementary, $372.
* Carver Elementary, $275.97.
* Eaton-Johnson Middle, $243.54.
* Henderson Middle, $193.38.
* E.O. Young Elementary, $121.
* L.B. Yancey Elementary, $110.
* Clark Street Elementary, $69.60.
* E.M. Rollins Elementary, $62.75.