Local school makes TV6 Canathon about helping troops as well.
By Natalie Jovonovich
Thursday, November 19, 2009 at 6:26 a.m.
Read more: Local, Community, Negaunee High School, TV6 Canathon, Art Students, Megan Goupill, Cody Hoeppner
NEGAUNEE -- The TV6 Canathon helps those in the need in the U.P., but one local school is also making the Canathon about helping our troops as well.
Students and faculty at Negaunee High School will receive a painted greeting card for every canned good they bring in for the TV6 Canathon.
If they don't want to bring a can, they can still buy a card for a quarter.
The cards are painted by art students and sent to soldiers.
"A lot of people around Negaunee and everywhere kind of don't have much money to buy food, so it's just kind of like supporting everybody that needs food," said ninth grader, Megan Goupill.
Eleventh grader Cody Hoeppner added, "The cards, we encourage people to send them to troops overseas or veterans from war."
The band has been playing holiday music every morning this week to encourage and remind students to donate.
This is the 21st year Negaunee art students have done this program.
