Students are enjoying their first week of Christmas break from school. So imagine some the looks on their faces when their school teachers walked up to their front door on Monday afternoon.
Staff members at the Guthrie Junior High purchased and delivered Christmas gifts to several of their students throughout the school district. The generous act of kindness was possible through the LEARN2LOVE initiative.
LEARN2LOVE is a program started at the Junior High in the memory of two school teachers, Jennifer Briggs and Heather Wilson, who were tragically killed in a vehicle accident while commuting to school in 2014.
With donations adding up to approximately $2,500, teachers compiled a list of students who they thought would benefit from receiving a Christmas gift. Names were turned into GJHS counsellors, Teresa Barbour and Kristi Blakemore, who contacted the parents of the students on the list and asked what the students needed and wanted for Christmas.
After the names were collected, a group of teachers went shopping for the gifts last Thursday after school. Jeri Mick, the school’s librarian, and Toni Hoel, school’s registrar, wrapped majority of the gifts last Friday during the school day with the help from staff members after school.
Principal Robbie Rainwater said staff members split into groups to help deliver the gifts.
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