Mountain Range students work to fulfill kid’s dreams

Students raise MakeA-Wish money to send 6-year-old to Disneyworld

BY BELEN WARD BWARD@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

A Brighton six-year-old dreams of visiting Disneyland came one step closer, thanks to Mountain Range High School students.

Mountain Range students participating in the Colorado “Kids for Wish Kids” program helped raise the money to send Brighton’s Arhyaih Matheson, to the theme park with her family.

“We are excited and ready to make new memories and have talked about it all week,” said Arhyaih’s Mom Shaughnessy Matheson.

Arhyaih had stomach cancer, she said, but doctors removed it, and he went through chemotherapy for about six months. He’s doing better, she said.

Kids for Wish Kids is a program under the umbrella of Colorado’s Make-A-Wish Foundation, where kids manage the wish-granting. In Arhyaih’s case, it culminated in a Feb. 10 rally in the high school’s gymnasium.

e students created a week of fundraising activities to send Arhyaih to Disneyland. ey played Super Smash Bros gaming competitions, dodgeball, and basketball tournaments. For the closing ceremony, the kids surprised Arhyaih with a gym decorated with Disneyland themes and had activities.

According to Make-A-Wish, this is the Mountain Range students second year raising funds for Kids For Wish Kids. ey raised more than $16,000 in 2022 for the Kids for Wish

Kids program, as well as another $20,000 this year to help Make-AWish give tuition to two kids.

“We are excited particularly with Mountain Range. ey go above and beyond for Make-A-Wish and for the kids we serve,” said Hannah Burrin, Development Manager for the Make-A-Wish Foundation. “ e students all week have fun activities and celebrate Arhyiah with di erent ways to fundraise. ey are learning philanthropy and learn valuable leadership skills and also plan all the Make-A-Wish events.” paid this spring, but Gov. Polis and the legislature moved up the timeline to last summer.

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