Girl Raises $1,949 for March of Dimes
Eighth-grader Jenna Nicoletti of Hilton D. Bell Intermediate School was recently honored as the county’s top youth fund-raiser in the WalkAmerica 1997 event for the March of Dimes.
The 13-year-old Garden Grove girl raised $1,949 for the organization’s Birth Defects Foundation, making her the top money-raiser in the county and 305th in the country.
More than 825,000 walkers from 1,500 communities participated in the annual event, which is the largest annual fund-raiser for the March of Dimes.
--TINA NGUYEN, LISA ADDISON, CATHY WERBLIN AND HOPE HAMASHIGE
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