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Goals reached, heads (and legs) shaved

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School administrators make good on pledges when students reach goals for hurricane relief
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Mavis Fodness

A scant $49 put a student-led fundraiser over the goal and placed three Luverne school administrators in the spotlight Friday afternoon.
Luverne High School students Jadyn Anderson and Anika Gust challenged middle and high school students to raise $4,000 for americares.org, a non-profit disaster relief organization, to bring aid to hurricane victims in the South.
The final total was $4,049.
“I was so, so, so proud,” said Anderson, a junior. “I heard stories of kids who were saving for tennis shoes give directly to relief.”
The money collected from the middle/high school fundraiser will go toward the health needs of families in Texas and Florida displaced by hurricanes Harvey and Irma in late August and early September.
The school fundraiser from Sept. 13-21 included a competition between the middle school and high school as to who could raise the most money.
When students reached certain milestones, three administrators were prompted into action. They fulfilled their promises during a student assembly Friday.
Athletic Director Todd Oye pledged to have his legs waxed if students raised $1,000. Middle/High School Principal Ryan Johnson would have his head shaved if $2,500 was reached. At the goal of $4,000 Superintendent Craig Oftedahl joined Oye and Johnson in donning wigs and singing the Spice Girls’ song, “Wannabe.”
With all three goals met, the administrators fulfilled their pledges Friday during a student assembly.
Americares.org began in 1975 and focuses on providing medicine and medical aid to people affected by poverty or disaster, according to its website.

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