Students in the fightFifty students from Sand Creek, Vista Ridge and Falcon high schools transformed the Sand Creek gymnasium into a fundraiser called ìWaldoís Benefit Bash,î according to a CNN report. The students set up games for cash donations and a table for Care and Share. The all-day event brought in more than 150 people who dropped off donations and helped out by adding activities like caricatures.Kimberly Gearhart, owner of Inflatable Family Entertainment and resident of School District 49, donated $1,500 worth of equipment rentals and $250 of supplies, including a bounce house and stands for making cotton candy, snow cones, popcorn, candy art and spin art.A sound system blasted local radio stations.The fundraiser included an area for donations for a D 49 Spanish teacher who lost his home in Mountain Shadows. Jim Rottenborn was on vacation when he and his wife and three daughters learned their home had been a victim of the fire. The students raised about $1,250 for the family, along with clothes, household items and toys. †Boy Scouts, tooTroop 149 rallies for Care and ShareBoy Scouts from Troop 149 volunteered more than 150 hours to Care and Share during the month of June to help efforts to ease the pain of the victims of the Waldo Canyon fire. The Scouts unloaded items from vehicles, broke down boxes, sorted and marked food items and watered the gardens at Care and Share.The troop also donated 160-plus bottles of Gatorade, purchased through troop family donations at discounted prices from Walmart, to local firefighter stations.Lions to the rescueThe Lions clubs of District 6-SE have collected $13,084.09 through grants and donations to help those affected by the Waldo Canyon fire.†The money went toward food, beverages, hygiene and cleaning supplies.As of July 6, 2012, the Lions of District 6-SE had purchased and delivered $6,262.53 worth of food to those affected by the Waldo Canyon fire.On July 11, 11 Lions Club members from Falcon, Calhan and Colorado Springs delivered another $6,821.56 worth of food to the Waldo Canyon Wildfire firefighters and displaced residents. The value of food donated by the Lions Club has totaled $13,084.09 so far. The Lions Club International Foundation Disaster Relief Grant provided $10,000, and Colorado Lions clubs and individual members donated the remaining amount. Canned meats, fruits and vegetables were among the items purchased.The Lions clubs of District 6-SE are made up of 37 clubs in the southeast part of the state.†Members from three clubs made the deliveries: from the Falcon Club, Roger and Carolyn Condie and Dan Lanotte; from the Colorado Springs Downtown Club, Nancy and Bob Lodge; from the Calhan Lions Club, Monty and Betty Whitney, Larry Doyle and Jodi Doyle, Ken Harris, Donna and Bob Selle.
