Photos of the Week
Skechers Pier to Pier Walk
Cyberbullying Rally
PHOTOS BY JUSTIN LEE
Million dollar walk. The Skechers Foundation raised over $1 million, in which $318,000 went to the Friendship Circle and $492,000 went to six other educational foundations. The Redondo Beach Education Foundation accepted a check of $55,000 from the Skechers
Foundation. Skechers president Michael Greenberg also gave a speech to all the attendees thanking all the participants and donors who contributed to the Pier to Pier Friendship Walk. “The money that’s raised goes to teacher’s jobs, improving technology in the schools and supporting programs like the Friendship Circle. There’s a lot of things that the money goes towards and the schools decide where they want the money to go,” public relations manager for Sketchers USA Stacy Held said. “As
far as the presentation went, several of our sponsors came and celebrated with us and many school leaders came to accept the checks.” “Michael Greenberg spoke and thanked all of our sponsors for turning the walk into what it became today. It was the largest walk we had so far and had the largest donation. Our sponsors, field sponsors, support from the schools, the Friendship Circle and the help of our community all contributed to raising the million dollars,” she said.
Child safety. Patty Fitzgerald, education specialist for Safely Ever After, gave a presentation at Washington Elementary on Feb. 27. “Tonight was all about cyber safety: what parents need to know, what kids need to know, and that we shouldn’t be freaked out about it,” Fitzgerald said. “It has nothing to do with Common core, but the district wanted to present this as education for everybody in the district.”
PHOTOS BY CEDRIC HYON
ROTC fundraiser flourishes with help and guidance from Biggs by Vivian Lam
Funds made from a recycling fundraiser proposed by junior Dylan Biggs will help ROTC cadets who cannot afford the cost of ROTC’s end of the year banquet. “A lot of the times, when we do fundraising, it’s just to lower the price in general. Sometimes, the cadets can’t pay for it even if it’s reduced price,” Biggs said. “I want to set the money earned from the recycling fundraiser for cadets who aren’t able to go at all.” Biggs is disappointed that some of the cadets aren’t able to attend the banquet because of financial reasons. “A couple of years ago, if you didn’t go, then you didn’t get promoted at all. It’s slowly becoming more if you didn’t go, we’d understand and you’ll still get promoted, but you’re still missing out on the experience,” he said. “I want everyone to get that experience. It’s really unfortunate when people can’t go.” Junior Henry Ripley and senior Michelle McAdams are assisting Biggs with the fundraiser. Biggs, Ripley and McAdams ask cadets to bring in bags of cans and bottles. Then, they will go recycle the collected items at the recycling center next to Vons and collect the money. “There’s a really motivated bunch of cadets in ROTC. We’ve had huge bags of recycling brought in,” Ripley said. “We started about last week and we’ve had 10 gigantic trash bags and 20 small ones.”
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The fundraiser has been going on for about two weeks. They collect at least three to four bags a day. “So far, we’ve made about $100, which would pay for about 5-6 cadets. We don’t really have a set goal; we just want to raise as much money as we can to pay for the cadets and lower the price,” Ripley said. “If we could set one, $1000 would be our ideal goal, but $500 would be a more reasonable goal. It would cover about 25 cadets or it could lower the price for a fair amount of the cadets.” From this fundraiser, Biggs learned about the benefits of recycling. “I learned that I’d like to start recycling more. We bring in 20 bags of recycling and make $40 to $50. It’s a lot,” he said. “There’s almost a sort of thriftiness to it. I throw out bottles and cans, when I can, to help the environment and I like the idea that we’re putting something we don’t even use anymore and get something back. It’s pretty useful.” Biggs’ main goal is to see his friends, who’ve never been to the banquet, at the banquet. “I’m a junior, and I’ve known cadets whom I’m really good friends with who have never gone because they just couldn’t afford it,” Biggs said. “So I’d like to see them there, smiling and getting their awards, and not see them getting their awards a week later in the classrooms.”
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PHOTOS BY CEDRIC HYON
Reduce, reuse, recycle. 1. A portion of the recyclables collected, mainly plastic bottles and tin cans. 2. Biggs prepares to bring the collected items to the recycling center. 3. Biggs works with his fellow ROTC members to get as much money as they can out of the recyclables, raising money to get cadets to the ROTC banquet.