By Jennifer Eisenbart
Editor
Officials at Catholic Central High School decided to change things up a little bit when it came to the annual Topper Trot this week.
On Monday, rather than just walking for awareness – as student had the previous 13 years – students went to various sites to perform community services projects.
“The first reason is it was felt by the school that what a great opportunity for our students to be out in the community,” said CCHS Development Director Georgean Selburg. “Another reason was to kind of shake things up a bit.
“Instead of doing just the walk to raise funds for the school and for Love Inc., we just wanted to change things up a bit and make it more of an initiative,” she added.
All of Catholic Central’s 158 students, minus absentees, went to work on the community garden at United Methodist church, as well as to Dyer Intermediate, Karcher Middle, St. Charles, St. Mary and Waller and Cooper elementary schools to help in the classrooms.
“I know at St. Mary’s they did one-on-one in the kindergarten class,” Selburg said.
In addition, the students went to Dairy Queen to do outside work like gardening and raking, one student went to Reineman’s, some to Veterans Terrace, others to Our Savior Lutheran Church, Bear Realty, and still more to Nickolai and Poletti law firm to do outside work.
Students also were dispersed to what will be the Keuper Merchantile – the old Schuette-Daniels Furniture store – to do inside cleanup, and to Love Inc. for various activities.
Some of the students also stayed to work at the high school on various cleanup jobs.
Selburg said the students were “appreciated everywhere they went,” but especially at Love Inc. and the community garden – which serves Love Inc. with fresh vegetables during the summer.
“What the students did in two hours significantly helped those in need at both places,” she said.
In total, Selburg said the school brought in about $5,800 in donations, with a portion is going to Love Inc.
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