From left, Cascade Elementary School teacher Scott Norberg, principal Bob Hunt and custodian Darrel Runyon wonder what's happening to them as they have their heads shaved by, from back left, kindergartener Berkley Varick, teacher Deborah Lince and kindergartener KD Obtinario on Friday. Cascade students raised more than $10,000 for Jump Rope for Heart, and the three volunteered to have their heads shaved as students watched during an assembly.
KD Obtinario, 5, shaves the head of Cascade School custodian Darrel Runyon Friday afternoon. Cascade students raised $10,050.28 for the Jump Rope for Heart program, and two staff members volunteers to have their heads shaved after the students exceeded their fundraising goal.
Cascade School teacher Deborah Lince helps kindergartener Berkley Varick shave the head of teacher Scott Norberg Friday afternoon. Norberg volunteered to have the student who raised the most money for Jump Rope for Heart shave his head if the school raised more than $6,000. Students at Cascade raised more than $10,500 in total.
CHEHALIS — Cascade Elementary School teacher Scott Norberg told his students he would shave his head if the school was able to raise $6,000 for heart disease awareness.
He had to have expected it would happen.
Cascade students raised a total of $10,050.28 for Jump Rope for Heart, a fundraiser for schools led by the American Heart Association.
But Norberg wouldn’t be the only one to sport a clean-shaven dome in front of students that pointed and laughed in good fun Friday afternoon. Custodian Darrel Runyon had jokingly said he would do the same thing if the students raised more than $10,000 — but school staff didn’t let him off easily.
“Oh, we’re holding both their feet to the fire on this one,” Cascade Principal Bob Hunt said Friday before an assembly in which two students had the honor of shaving Norberg and Runyon’s heads.
Kindergartener Berkley Varick raised $535 and KD Obtinario raised $345, making them the top two individual money raisers and the ones who would take electric razors to the heads of Norberg and Runyon, respectively.
Off came the hair to the cheers of the students and smiles of the parents who gathered to watch the event.
“KD was out there fundraising at church and a lot of people just gave,” said KD’s father, Mark Obtinario. “It’s amazing how all these young kids were able to raise all this money for a good cause.”
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