Hunter Middle School’s fall fundraiser has turned away from its usual catalog sales to a new Family Fun Night fundraiser set for Friday, Sept. 24.
“In the society that we live in today there’s just not a lot of inexpensive ways that families can get out and spend an evening together,” said assistant principal LeAngela Rogers.
Students have been selling $10 tickets for the Olive Garden dinner for weeks, and the administration and homeroom classes are assembling themed baskets for the night’s silent auction – including Tennessee tailgating, movie night and a gardening wagon.
Hunter Middle School seventh-graders Caleb Collins, Callie Kell and Justin Shropshire, from left, show off a Tennessee tailgate basket compiled by the school’s administration to be auctioned at the Family Fun Night fundraiser Sept. 24.“That’s kind of competitive,” said bookkeeper Catherine Frick, explaining that the student in each grade who sells the most tickets gets $50, and the homeroom with the winning basket gets a pizza party during school.
Most supplies for the baskets have been donated by area businesses.