Late this winter, 121 students at Grantsburg Elementary and Nelson Primary schools elected to participate in the American Heart Association Heart Heroes fundraiser. Under the facilitation of PE teacher Scott Erickson, the students collected donations that were given to the AHA to be used for public health education, professional education and training, research and community service. Collectively, the K-3 student fundraisers gathered a staggering $22,412.52! To recognize their outstanding efforts, the Dallas, Texas based physical education supplier US Games donated nearly $2,000 in gift certificates to the Grantsburg schools to be put toward equipment for the elementary PE department.
As an incentive for the students. Mr. E volunteered to be hit in the face with a pie by the top-3 student fundraisers at both Nelson and GES. Those students were: Corbin Kruse, Jian Corrigan and Harper Reis at GES and Ray Lamoureux, Nora Crocker and Indie Tooze at Nelson Primary.