Bosse District Schools Collect Toys, Money for Shriner’s Patients
Thanks to the Shriner’s, thousands of children receive care every year from a network of hospitals throughout the United States. One of those hospitals – Shriner’s Hospital for Children – St. Louis – focuses on orthopedic and neuromusculoskeletal disorders and diseases in children from birth to age 16. To help make those children’s stays a little more comfortable, six Evansville Vanderburgh School Corporation schools have come together to collect toys that will be donated to the hospital.
All six schools in the Bosse High School district have joined forces as a commUNITY to support the Shriner’s Hospital in St. Louis. Each school – Bosse High School, Washing Middle School, Lodge Community School, Glenwood Leadership Academy, and Dexter and Harper elementary schools – are collecting new toys that will be donated to children from birth to 16 years of age who are receiving medical treatment at Shriner’s.
On Friday, September 14, the schools will “join hands†and celebrate with local Shriner’s at a Carnival that will take place at Bosse High School’s practice field located just outside Enlow Field at 5 p.m. The carnival will take place immediately before Bosse’s Homecoming Football game against Memorial beginning at 7 p.m. The carnival, which is free and open to the public, will include Shriner’s clowns, pony rides, games, cotton candy, snow cones and more. At halftime, the Bosse district schools will come together and present the donated toys to local Shriner’s.
Individuals wishing to donate new toys can drop them off at any Bosse High School district school (Bosse, Glenwood, Lodge, Washington, Dexter, or Harper) or bring them to the game on Sept. 14. Monetary donations also are being accepted and can be dropped off, mailed to any Bosse High School district school, or brought to the game.
