Jump-Roping Students Raise $8,600 for Heart Assn.
About 600 Marian Bergeson Elementary School students from kindergarten through fifth grade recently jumped rope for about an hour and collected $8,600 for the American Heart Assn.
“We were the top money fund-raiser here in south Orange County,” said second-grade teacher Bill Paine. But the group fell just short of its $10,000 goal.
The Jump Rope for Heart event included lessons for students and demonstrations to promote heart awareness.
Dr. Greg Thomas, a cardiologist with Mission Internal Medical Group, showed children how inventions such as a balloon angioplasty can prolong lives.
“I want to be a surgeon and do a bypass like the transportation corridor to go around all the blocked arteries,” fourth-grader K.C. Clarke said after Thomas’ demonstration.
Start your day right
Sign up for Essential California for news, features and recommendations from the L.A. Times and beyond in your inbox six days a week.
You may occasionally receive promotional content from the Los Angeles Times.
