FREDERICK, Okla_Frederick High School has joined in
the battle against cancer. The school's student council is helping improve and
extend the lives of cancer patients in a big way. They recently donated more
than $10,000 to the Peggy and Charles Stephenson Cancer
Center in Oklahoma City.
For the last
three years the cancer center has held a *win-win* week. It partners up with Oklahoma
Secondary School Activities Association to ask all Oklahoma high schools to help raise money
for their cancer patients. Last year, Frederick High School
raised a little over $5,000 and this year, they've raised about the same
amount.
Frederick High School student
council members know you don't have to have a personal tie to cancer to help
people affected by the disease.
"You never
know. One day I could have cancer, anybody can have cancer, anybody in my
family...and so I know if I was in that position I would want somebody to help
out."
"There are
people out there who are and I just feel so sorry that they have to go through
that and helping them out any way we can is a good thing."
That's exactly
what they did. Over the past two years, the students have helped raise over $10,000
for the Peggy and Charles
Stephenson Cancer
Center.
Student council
members said while some of the money was donated to their cause, most of it came
from the community through fund raisers like t-shirt sales and selling food. The
response to what these students were doing for the cancer center in Oklahoma
City even surprised the council's advisor.
"It feels
awesome and what's really exciting is to see them kind of connect and get out
there and sale the stuff and make the sales pitch. But they really did a good
job," Frederick Student Council Advisor Angela Archer said.
Archer said the
big lesson was to teach the student council that if someone is in need and they
have the resources to help out, do it.
"It's just
kind of a good stored act to get out there and do it."
Archer said
even though the student council has met their deadline for this cause, they
will continue to raise money for the fight against cancer.
According to the
cancer center's website, any school that donates $10,000 or more in under two
years will have a room named in their honor.
