Students Help a Family Have Christmas
By: Spencer Shultz
Updated: December 22, 2012
(ST. JOSEPH, Mo.) Students from Robidoux Middle School in St. Joseph shoveled driveways yesterday for donations.
They made around $175 and used that money to give a classmate and his family a happy holiday after they lost everything in a recent fire.
Along with a gift card, the girls gave the kids in the Burnett family other items.
The family feels honored by the generosity this Christmas.
"It felt amazing to know that i helped give them a Christmas this year and i felt really good that i could be apart of
helping that." said Ashlyn Dotson, a student at Robidoux Middle School.
"Honored, i guess, honored. Joby is such a good kid and people like him so much, and you know i have such good kids,
I do have good kids." said Janice Burnett, who lost her home in the fire.
The gifts are just one part of the support the family received this holiday season.
Catholic charities also helped the family work out a lease on a new home.
The Red Cross provided beds for the Burnett's.
They made around $175 and used that money to give a classmate and his family a happy holiday after they lost everything in a recent fire.
Along with a gift card, the girls gave the kids in the Burnett family other items.
The family feels honored by the generosity this Christmas.
"It felt amazing to know that i helped give them a Christmas this year and i felt really good that i could be apart of
helping that." said Ashlyn Dotson, a student at Robidoux Middle School.
"Honored, i guess, honored. Joby is such a good kid and people like him so much, and you know i have such good kids,
I do have good kids." said Janice Burnett, who lost her home in the fire.
The gifts are just one part of the support the family received this holiday season.
Catholic charities also helped the family work out a lease on a new home.
The Red Cross provided beds for the Burnett's.
