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March 2024 | Vol. 06 Iss. 3
WASATCH JR. HIGH STUDENTS REACH NEW HEIGHTS IN FUNDRAISING FOR SOUPER BOWL OF CARING
By Jolene Croasmun | j.croasmun@mycityjournals.com
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rincipal Mary Basso of Wasatch Jr. High, along with the Assistant Principal Renee Dehaan, pledged to sleep on the roof of the school if the student body raised $18,000 during the Granite Education Foundation’s Souper Bowl of Caring fundraiser. Last year, the school only raised $1,900. This year, Wasatch decided to go the extra mile and pull out all the stops with lots of unusual incentives like head shaving, pie throwing, face painting, and buckets of water dumped on students’ heads and, of course, the administrators sleeping on top of the roof. The school reached that goal in no time, and Basso and Dehaan camped out on the roof on Feb. 6. “It was a cold, wet and windy night but it was great. We had umbrellas, we took our tents and we took our Uno cards and we did not get too much sleep,” Basso said. “We told the kids we would be on the roof and they could drive by and honk and we would wave. We threw some glow sticks down to these kids that came by and chatted with us. It was really fun,” Basso said. “This was the administration’s idea to sleep on the roof of the school,” Basso said. “No one thought that the students would raise this much money.” “Several kids even asked us, ‘Did you guys really sleep there all night because several of us think you went back inside and slept in your offices.’ Nope, your word has to mean Students and administrators of Wasatch Jr. High that were willing to have water dumped on their heads for a good cause in February to raise Continued page 8 money for the Granite Education Foundation’s Souper Bowl of Caring. (Mary Basso/Wasatch Jr. High)
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