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6 | November 9, 2017 | The Homer Horizon NEWS<br />
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Hadley students lead donation drive for troops<br />
Max Lapthorne<br />
Contributing Editor<br />
It’s peanut butter jelly time<br />
at Hadley Middle School.<br />
About 120 students, part<br />
of six homerooms designated<br />
as the Blue Team, are<br />
spearheading a donation<br />
drive with the goal of collecting<br />
1,000 jars of peanut<br />
butter and jelly to send to<br />
troops via Operation Care<br />
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Bre Schultz (left) and Trinity Muszynski show off the peanut<br />
butter and jelly costumes that are to be used to promote<br />
the peanut butter and jelly drive for Operation Care<br />
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Package.<br />
“That’s the two things<br />
they can’t get, is peanut butter<br />
and jelly,” sixth-grader<br />
Trinity Muszynski said of<br />
the troops stationed overseas.<br />
“[The Blue Team] is<br />
sponsoring it, and then the<br />
whole school is bringing in<br />
jars of peanut butter and jelly,<br />
because our goal is 1,000<br />
jars.”<br />
The donation drive began<br />
Monday, Nov. 6 and is to<br />
run through Nov. 17. All the<br />
members of the Blue Team<br />
were placed in different committees,<br />
each with its own set<br />
of tasks to help the donation<br />
efforts, according to Blue<br />
Team teacher Jennifer Donahue.<br />
Muszynski and fellow<br />
sixth-grader Bre Schultz<br />
decided on a unique way to<br />
spread the word of the donation<br />
drive beyond the walls of<br />
Hadley.<br />
“We’ve decided to get it<br />
in the newspaper, and try to<br />
put it out there to reach our<br />
goal,” Muszynski said.<br />
Some students have been<br />
mentioning the drive during<br />
the morning announcements<br />
at school, some have decorated<br />
the collection boxes,<br />
others have made up flyers<br />
to be sent home to parents<br />
and a group designed posters<br />
to hang in the hallways.<br />
There also may be some students<br />
making appearances in<br />
peanut butter and jelly costumes<br />
throughout the school.<br />
“We’re going to also put<br />
boxes [around] and put flyers<br />
in the teachers’ mailboxes,”<br />
Schultz said.<br />
During the two-week collection,<br />
there are to be boxes<br />
in every homeroom for students<br />
to drop off their donations.<br />
At the end of each day,<br />
Schultz and Muszynski will<br />
empty the donation boxes<br />
and tally up how many jars<br />
each homeroom collects, and<br />
at the end of the donation<br />
drive, the winning homeroom<br />
will be awarded a prize.<br />
With nearly 1,000 students<br />
and about 80 faculty members,<br />
the goal of 1,000 jars<br />
in two weeks is attainable if<br />
they get donations from everyone,<br />
Muszynski said.<br />
“I think if everybody<br />
brings in a few jars, and we<br />
get donations, I think [we<br />
can reach the goal],” she<br />
said.<br />
While there is a prize on<br />
the line for students at Hadley,<br />
anyone looking to donate<br />
peanut butter and/or jelly is<br />
welcome to do so, as well.<br />
Donations can be brought<br />
to the main office at Hadley<br />
Middle School. Glass jars<br />
cannot be accepted.<br />
Muszynski and Schultz<br />
agreed on their favorite part<br />
of being involved with the<br />
peanut butter jelly drive.<br />
“Meeting our goal, and<br />
making our soldiers happy,”<br />
Schultz said.<br />
Inaugural Barn Bash for Ash<br />
fundraiser set for Nov. 11<br />
Homer Glen resident<br />
honors late wife’s<br />
memory with event<br />
Jon DePaolis<br />
Freelance Reporter<br />
Ashley Jurjovec was just<br />
31 years old when she died<br />
because of a rare heart disease<br />
in 2016.<br />
Now, in an effort to not<br />
only honor his late wife but<br />
also raise funds for critical<br />
research of these types of<br />
diseases, Homer Glen resident<br />
Matt Jurjovec is hosting<br />
the inaugural Barn Bash for<br />
Ash from 7-11 p.m. Saturday,<br />
Nov. 11, at Barn and<br />
Company, 950 W. Wrightwood<br />
Ave. in Chicago.<br />
Ashley, an Orland Park<br />
native, died in May 2016<br />
because of arrhythmogenic<br />
right ventricular cardiomyopathy.<br />
“It’s a progressive heart<br />
condition, where your right<br />
atrium lining gets replaced<br />
with scar tissue,” said Matt<br />
Jurjovec, Ashley’s husband.<br />
“It causes and triggers arrhythmias.”<br />
Matt said Ashley was diagnosed<br />
with an arrhythmia<br />
in high school and college,<br />
but doctors at the time<br />
thought it was benign.<br />
“She felt fine and never<br />
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