FES student council raises $900 for Last Hope, Inc.

• Photo: FES donation

Last Hope, Inc., president Bev Orr met with the Farmington Elementary School fifth grade student council Tuesday to receive a check for more than $900. Last Hope was the recipient of the recent fundraiser conducted by the FES student council.

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Loose change really does add up.

That’s what Farmington Elementary School students found out over the past few weeks, as they earned more than $900 for Last Hope by gathering their loose change and turning it in at the school.

It was part of a fundraiser put on by the FES fifth grade student council. Every year, the student council chooses a handful of nonprofit organizations that could use some financial help. They do a vote to select which will be the recipient. Last year, Feed My Starving Children was on the receiving end of the students’ efforts. This year, Last Hope Inc., the community’s animal rescue organization, was chosen as the recipient.

Students pooled their pennies for the last two weeks of April. When all the change was counted, it turned out FES students had collected $908 for the organization. Members of the FES student council presented the check to Last Hope president Bev Orr Tuesday afternoon.

Orr was impressed by the donation. It was, she said, the largest amount Last Hope has ever received from a student-led organization.

“We’re an all-volunteer organization,”?Orr told students, “so every penny that you made will go to the animals.”

Last year, Last Hope placed 1,846 dogs and cats in new homes.?Right now, Orr said, the group has more than 80 cats looking for new, loving homes.

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