Ammon Students Collect Jeans For Needy
Local students are indeed doing something with dosomething.org?s Teens for Jeans program.
Woodland Hills Elementary in Ammon is collecting used jeans for the needy along with more than 11,000 schools around the country. The Warriors have only been collecting for three weeks and already they had 2,361 jeans as of 2:15pm Friday. Sixth-grader Tucker Johnson even brought in 29 pairs by himself.
?The librarian said the fourth-graders are waiting to save up all their jeans and try to beat us and it’s like neck and neck for us,? said Tucker.
?The classes want to win, but most of all they want to win together as a school. So it’s been a great way for us to come together as a school, and to do something for somebody else,? said librarian, Shelli McBride.
?When you donate things to other people that don’t have the things that you have, then it’s nice,? said Emma Child, a third grader.
The contest ends Sunday, so you can still donate over the weekend. Just take your used jeans to Aeropostale in the Grand Teton Mall and tell them they are for Woodland Hills Elementary and specify which grade.
The winning grade gets to play bingo with the librarian for prizes, but the winning national school gets $5,000, and each student gets a new pair of jeans.
