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Thirty-nine students from Pattonsburg R-2 preschool through sixth grades participated in a two hour after school Walk-A-Thon held Tuesday, May 1. Money raised will be used to buy books for the classroom libraries.
The students’ goal was for the eight classes to raise $100 each for a total of $800. The students more than doubled that figure by raising donations in the amount of $1,859.70.
Before the event, Elementary Principal Rick Collier challenged the students, saying that he would run half as many laps as they could walk or bike.
Some kids rode their bikes and some walked. If they rode their bikes, their total was divided by two for the total number of laps. The elementary did a total of 453 laps in two hours. Meaning Mr. Collier had to run/walk 226 ½ laps or about 30 miles.
On Friday, May 4, he completed 16 miles worth of laps around the track and has been doing the rest the first three days of this week, rain or shine. Fortunately Mr. Collier, 27, is in shape and has run in the Kansas City Marathon in the past.
Mr. Collier has already promised the students that next year he’ll do something a little less strenuous, like shave his head.
Students doing the most laps the day of the Walk-A-Thon received a brand new bike. Students raising the most toward the libraries received gift certificates. Winners were announced at an assembly on Friday, May 4.
Bike winner for students in preschool through second grade was Peyton Jones for walking 16 laps. Bike winner for third through sixth grade was Gage Davis for walking 25 laps.
The Pattonsburg Walk-A-Thon grand winner was sixth grader Geoffrey Hartley who received a $35 gift certificate to Wal-Mart. Winners of $10 gift certificates were: preschool – Cody Crabtree; kindergarten – Madison Hummer; first grade – Forrest Fields; second grade – Will McDaniel; third grade – Alissa Fields; fourth grade – Megan Crone; fifth grade – Heather Booth; sixth grade – Sydney Hulet.
Both the bikes and gift certificates were provided by Wal-Mart.