PANORAMA CITY : N.Y. Principal Brings $235 Check to School
A New York City school principal hand-delivered a check Friday to Liggett Street Elementary School, where classrooms were damaged by the Jan. 17 Northridge earthquake.
The $235 check delivered by Lawrence Cohen of Public School 33 supplemented an earlier $650 sent to the Panorama City school. Liggett Principal David Sanchez said the money will pay for repairs to computers, a water heater and the auditorium ceiling, among other things.
“Our children decided they wanted to help the children in the earthquake out here,” said Cohen, whose school has 1,030 students in kindergarten through fifth grade. “They went out asking for donations. Some of them brought in their own piggy banks.”
“It’s a generous offer on their part,” said Sanchez, whose school has about the same number of students. “You don’t have that happen too often--a principal from another school come by to follow up.”
Cohen was in Los Angeles on personal business, but made the extra trip to Panorama City to see the school that his students had been worried about.
For his return trip, Sanchez gave Cohen a special plaque of thanks from Liggett.
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