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...money to put in their recreational account. In addition to raising money, we wanted to collect teen-age oriented books with positive morals. Form a Plan: Now we had to decide how we would go about achieving our goal. After much thought, we decided to set up a table in the cafeteria during lunch once a week in November, January, and February, and ask students and faculty to donate any spare change to the HOST House fundraiser. We also thought that by asking teachers and FCCLA members to donate teen-age oriented, good moral books, we would get a good response. Lastly, we deiced to help a volunteer group from Beta Club in collecting stuffed animals and money to make necessity baskets for the HOST House. FCCLA would donate a tray of cookies to the 3rd block class that collected the most money and stuffed animals. Act on the Plan: Now that we had defined our plan, it was time to get started. We emailed our Principal, Mrs. Fendley, about our plan. She was quick to respond and approved the following actions: - A collection table was set up in the Cafeteria November 11th through November 15th, and then again from January 21st through January 24th. Two FCCLA members would sit at the table asking for donations. Announcements were made over the P.A. systems so everyone was well aware of our collections and our intentions. Also, on the last collection day, we went around to classrooms in the school and asked for final donations, in which students and faculty members were so very generous. Our grand total so far is $440.20, but we will be collecting for the last time in February. - Lindsey Dearmond, a member of the Beta Volunteer Group, headed up the stuffed animal and money collections. After th...