School Features
Run raises $2K for Olivia Park
Published on Thu, May 13, 2010 by Sara BruestleRead More School Features
First grader Cole Ripke wasn’t tired after running eight laps in to the annual Fun’d Run fundraiser at Olivia Park Elementary, but by lap 15 he was ready to stop.
“Fifteen laps was my goal,” he said. “But it wasn’t easy. I almost ran out of energy.”
Olivia Park students ran or walked laps around the school’s sandlot Saturday to support their PTA.
They received about $2,200 in sponsorships from family and friends for the laps they ran.
In its second year, the annual Fun’d Run started as a PTA-fundraiser alternative to selling cookie dough, said PTA President Marcie Hagan.
“We decided we were tired of selling things that people don’t really want or need, and that it would be a fun idea to get families together out here exercising and having a good time while raising money for the PTA,” she said.
Students in kindergarten through fifth grade – many of them joined by their families – went around and around the sandlot from 11-1 p.m. Saturday, occasionally stopping for water, hot dog and chips breaks. They said five laps is equal to a mile.
“I’m a little tired but not a whole lot tired,” fourth grader Jacob Mast after running five laps around the sandlot. “I want to do 15 [laps] because that would be three miles, and I want to do three miles.”
For raising $1 for the school, students received a bracelet, for $25 raised they received a lanyard, for $50 raised they received a T-shirt, and for $100 raised they received a sweatshirt.
For every lap ran, students were also given a raffle ticket for a chance to win prizes, including jump ropes, dolls, stuffed animals, games, sidewalk chalk and water balloons.
Third grader Mikaylah Himmelberger said the thought of winning prizes kept her going around the sandlot. She wanted to run at least 10 laps, so she could get at least 10 tickets.
“I’m going to try to do it (run) until nobody else is on the track,” she said. “That’s what I want, because if I’m the last person still going, I might have more tickets.”
With $195 in donations, fourth grader Carter Brewer won the grand prize, a Nintendo DSi game system, for raising the most funds for the school.
The classroom with the most runners was Mrs. Herradura’s fourth-graders. The students won a class party of their choice, paid for by the PTA.
Second grader Jaden Jones ran 23 laps during the Fun’d Run, beating his goal of 20.
“I play three sports – football, basketball and now baseball – so I like to run,” he said. “I was going to try and do 20, but I wasn’t tired yet so I just kept running.”
Part of the $2,200 raised is set aside for a covered area for students waiting to be picked up from school.
As it is now, teachers line up their students on the sidewalk at the front of the building to wait for their parents.
The pick-up area has nowhere to stand that is covered, so both teachers and students get rained and snowed on whenever the weather is bad.
“When it’s raining, the kids over there get soaked, and then they have to go inside, and then they don’t know if their parents are there or not,” third grader Connor Macpherson.
Hagan said the PTA has yet to submit a request to build a covered area to the Mukilteo School District, but that they wanted to start fundraising for it already with Saturday’s Fun’d Run.
Other funds will go toward PTA-funded programs, including teacher’s grants, assemblies, field trips, spelling bees and parties.
Friends Allison Baker, Kaitlyn Baughman and Taylor Minnihan, all fourth graders, ran their Fun’d Run laps together.
They were planning to run 50 laps, or 10 miles, but later realized 50 was too many. Baker ran six laps, Baughman, seven, and Minnihan, 10.
“We wanted to help raise money for our school,” Baker said. “Our school doesn’t have a lot of money right now, and it just seemed good [to do].”
“Fifteen laps was my goal,” he said. “But it wasn’t easy. I almost ran out of energy.”
Olivia Park students ran or walked laps around the school’s sandlot Saturday to support their PTA.
They received about $2,200 in sponsorships from family and friends for the laps they ran.
Third grader Alex Ripke collects his Fun’d Run raffle ticket from
paraeducator Judy Lloyd and Title I teacher Meg Grimes during
Olivia Park’s fundraiser. Students were given a ticket for every
lap ran around the school’s sandlot for a chance to win prizes.
In its second year, the annual Fun’d Run started as a PTA-fundraiser alternative to selling cookie dough, said PTA President Marcie Hagan.
“We decided we were tired of selling things that people don’t really want or need, and that it would be a fun idea to get families together out here exercising and having a good time while raising money for the PTA,” she said.
Students in kindergarten through fifth grade – many of them joined by their families – went around and around the sandlot from 11-1 p.m. Saturday, occasionally stopping for water, hot dog and chips breaks. They said five laps is equal to a mile.
“I’m a little tired but not a whole lot tired,” fourth grader Jacob Mast after running five laps around the sandlot. “I want to do 15 [laps] because that would be three miles, and I want to do three miles.”
Fourth graders Allison Baker, Kaitlyn Baughman and Taylor Minnihan run
laps together at Olivia Park’s annual Fun’d Run fundraiser.
For raising $1 for the school, students received a bracelet, for $25 raised they received a lanyard, for $50 raised they received a T-shirt, and for $100 raised they received a sweatshirt.
For every lap ran, students were also given a raffle ticket for a chance to win prizes, including jump ropes, dolls, stuffed animals, games, sidewalk chalk and water balloons.
Third grader Mikaylah Himmelberger said the thought of winning prizes kept her going around the sandlot. She wanted to run at least 10 laps, so she could get at least 10 tickets.
“I’m going to try to do it (run) until nobody else is on the track,” she said. “That’s what I want, because if I’m the last person still going, I might have more tickets.”
With $195 in donations, fourth grader Carter Brewer won the grand prize, a Nintendo DSi game system, for raising the most funds for the school.
The classroom with the most runners was Mrs. Herradura’s fourth-graders. The students won a class party of their choice, paid for by the PTA.
Second grader Jaden Jones ran 23 laps during the Fun’d Run, beating his goal of 20.
“I play three sports – football, basketball and now baseball – so I like to run,” he said. “I was going to try and do 20, but I wasn’t tired yet so I just kept running.”
Part of the $2,200 raised is set aside for a covered area for students waiting to be picked up from school.
As it is now, teachers line up their students on the sidewalk at the front of the building to wait for their parents.
The pick-up area has nowhere to stand that is covered, so both teachers and students get rained and snowed on whenever the weather is bad.
“When it’s raining, the kids over there get soaked, and then they have to go inside, and then they don’t know if their parents are there or not,” third grader Connor Macpherson.
Hagan said the PTA has yet to submit a request to build a covered area to the Mukilteo School District, but that they wanted to start fundraising for it already with Saturday’s Fun’d Run.
Other funds will go toward PTA-funded programs, including teacher’s grants, assemblies, field trips, spelling bees and parties.
Friends Allison Baker, Kaitlyn Baughman and Taylor Minnihan, all fourth graders, ran their Fun’d Run laps together.
They were planning to run 50 laps, or 10 miles, but later realized 50 was too many. Baker ran six laps, Baughman, seven, and Minnihan, 10.
“We wanted to help raise money for our school,” Baker said. “Our school doesn’t have a lot of money right now, and it just seemed good [to do].”
Third grader Mikaylah Himmelberger said the thought of winning prizes
kept her going around the sandlot at Olivia Park Elementary during the
school’s annual Fun’d Run fundraiser.
kept her going around the sandlot at Olivia Park Elementary during the
school’s annual Fun’d Run fundraiser.