Bonny Eagle Middle School in Buxton raised just over $1,400 in collections for the American Red Cross to use for Hurricane Katrina relief efforts. Bonny Eagle Middle School students and staff, as well as the Chief Executive Officer of the American Red Cross Southern Maine Chapter, raised the school’s honor flag following the school’s Hurricane Katrina Relief drive. Librarian Anne Farley and Library Assistant Ginny Anderson coordinated the fund-raising effort at the middle school.

Middle school students and staff members made contributions in a jar in the library. Several students brought in money from their piggybanks, one collected at a farmer’s market, others collected from their neighborhoods, and some individual classrooms contributed as a group. Faculty contributed, and some parents and grandparents contributed through their children. The contributors wrote their feelings about the disaster in a book which will be kept in the library.

When Anne Farley delivered the check to the Southern Maine Red Cross, Suzanne McCormick, the CEO of the chapter was deeply touched by the generosity of the middle school students and staff. She is a resident of the school district and lives in Buxton.

McCormick asked if there were some way that she could visit the school and say thank you to the students and staff. She came to the school and delivered a special message from her organization to the school community on the school’s closed circuit T.V. Then with the help of some of the students and staff, the honor flag was raised to thank both those who gave and those who suffered from this devastating storm.