2019 Relay for Life

Page 76 2019 RELAY FOR LIFE MAGAZINE LINCOLN DAILY NEWS JUNE 19, 2019 to Northwest and arrived at 9 a.m. Then they joined the Northwest students for an assembly in the gymnasium led by Relay for Life volunteer Tammy Dietrich. Early in the assembly Ms. Dietrich congratulated all the students on their excellent fundraising efforts. Adams School had raised just over $100 for Relay for Life. Northwest School raised $1,235.42. This included $70 raised on a teacher and staff Denim Day and $1,165.42 raised in the all- school coin war. Dietrich explained the coin war. Students were asked to bring in pennies or paper money to put in the collection container. For every one cent in the container the classroom earned a point. However, there was a twist. Students from other classrooms could come into a room and place silver coins in the jar, and those coins took away a point for every one cent. Mrs. Murley’s class was the top earning in the coin war, and when Ms. Dietrich made that announcement, the hoots and hollers in the gymnasium echoed through the entire building. In the Coin War, Mrs. Murley’s class earned 15,844 positive points ($158.44) and 7,055 negative points ($70.55). The net classroom points to the good then ended up being 8,789, but the total money collected in the container was $228.99. Ms. Abbott’s classroom came in second with only 238 points ($2.38) separating them from the winner to end with a total of 8,551 points and a cash donation of $162.81. Ms. Dietrich also said that her classroom lost. But, it wasn’t for lack of trying very hard. Students put in 3,002 cents or $30.02. However, the silver money placed in the container equaled 4,105 points against the class, putting their final total in the red zone with a negative 1,103. However, the total dollars collected came to $71.07, which was still a very commendable effort for the classroom. Continued n