Cutting Their Hair For Katie Casey
Published: May 11, 2006
Their goal was to raise $2000 to donate in honor of a classmate with cancer, but Altoona Middle School students didn’t cut off there. They went on to raise more than twice that. Because the students raised more than $4500, 20 fifth and sixth graders shaved their heads this morning.
Eleven-year-old Katie Carey was diagnosed with a bone cancer in March and is receiving treatment in Marshfield. She says she’s overwhelmed by her classmate’s gesture. “Pretty weird to see everyone like me with their hair gone,” says the fifth grader.
“For these kids to be willing to drastically change their looks in honor of my daughter, it’s very touching,” says Wendy Carey, Katie’s mother.
The money raised by Katie’s classmates will be split between the Wisconsin Leukemia-Lymphoma Society and the
If you enjoyed this good news Subscribe to Good News Blog
Share this
To share this simply copy and paste one of the below URL's: