Students rewarded for fundraising efforts with human hotdogs

By Tina Comeau

THE VANGUARD

NovaNewsNow.com



Arcadia Consolidated School was relishing in excitement on Friday, Oct. 11.

And there was a lot of ketchup and mustard too.

Principal Janet Sollows and vice-principal Larry Fitzgerald dressed up as human hotdogs to reward the school’s 245 students for their efforts in raising money for the Terry Fox Run this year. The elementary school had set a fundraising goal in the $4,000 range this year but surpassed it and raised a total of $5,516.

Because of that, Fitzgerald and Sollows laid themselves out on tables in hotdog buns as the students got to squirt and cover them with condiments.

This is the 10th year the school has been raising money for the Terry Fox Run. Over the past decade it has raised $44,110.24 to help keep Terry Fox’s dream alive. Aside from raising money through pledges for their walk that was held on Sept. 26, the school did other things to raise money too, with some students even turning over loose change they found on the playground to the cause.

Last month staff member Darlene Deal also shaved her head in memory of her father who had cancer. Donations passed in by students during that event also helped to drive up the total.

During Friday’s picnic, the school received permission to for a hot dog exemption from the food and nutrition policy. Hotdogs, which had been donated by the Superstore, were eaten by the students before things moved onto the main event.

The first ceremonial squirts of condiments went to Grade 3 student Sophie Surette who raised $200.50 for the Terry Fox Run, the most of any individual student.

Afterward being covered in the hotdog works, Sollows said midway through she was starting to wonder if the ketchup and mustard were going to soak through her clothing.

“Yep, it soaked through,” she laughed.

Asked how to describe being a human hotdog, Fitzgerald said it was gooey.