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Students raise $2,075 to benefit Pennies for Patients program

Students raise $2,075 to benefit Pennies for Patients program
Jace Thomas, 7, holds a stack of pennies he counted for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society’s Pennies for Patients program at Ganado Intermediate School on Feb. 3 in Ganado. (Times photo - Stacy Thacker)

Jace Thomas, 7, holds a stack of pennies he counted for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society’s Pennies for Patients program at Ganado Intermediate School on Feb. 3 in Ganado. (Times photo – Stacy Thacker)

GANADO, Ariz.

Students in Joyce Tsinajinnie’s class count out coins for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society’s Pennies for Patients program at Ganado Intermediate School on Feb. 3. (Times photo - Stacy Thacker)

Students in Joyce Tsinajinnie’s class count out coins for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society’s Pennies for Patients program at Ganado Intermediate School on Feb. 3. (Times photo – Stacy Thacker)

Coins poured out of boxes and clinked as they hit the tables in Joyce Tsinajinnie’s third grade classroom.

Seven students scrambled for the loose change and begin to count out and make stacks of pennies, dimes, nickels and quarters – this is part of their projects with the Pennies for Patients program, a program with the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society that encourages students to learn about blood cancer and ways they can help.

For three weeks in January students at Ganado Primary School and the intermediate school were asked to fill their little yellow boxes with loose change. Students from Pre-K to fifth grade took to their parent’s cars, couches and pockets for change.


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