by KYW’s Karin Phillips
A group of 7th graders in Chester have raised money to help their community by saving their pennies.
A fierce competition has ended at Smedley Middle School in Chester. Called “Pennies from Heaven”, students competed to collect pennies for charity. The event was organized by the Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance Agency. The Agency's Michael Robinson talked about the program:
”The goal was that whichever homeroom would collect the most pennies -- and they could only collect pennies -- would be the winner.”
And the winner is Homeroom #319, which collected almost $400. All of the students from that homeroom will attend a home Sixers game for their efforts. Laneia Mitchell says collecting pennies is not as easy as it might sound:
”I had to think about it all the time, about how not to spend it.”
The school collected 100,000 pennies or $1,000, which is going to the Community Action Agency of Delaware County.
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