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Archbishop Curley-Notre Dame

High School of the Archdiocese of Miami

4949 NE 2 Avenue

Miami, Florida 33137

 

Press release – January 15, 2005

 

 

Tsunami on Second Avenue

 

 

A wave of enthusiasm will greet drivers this weekend as they approach 50th Street on North East Second AvenueArchbishop Curley Notre Dame High School student organizations have rallied their membership to participate in a two day car washing project to raise funds for the Tsunami Relief Effort.

 

Friday, January 21, from 2:30 PM to 5 PM, and Saturday, January 22 from 9:30 AM to 2:30 PM students will be guiding drivers onto the ACND campus where teams equipped with soap and water and a mountain of recently collected towels will be treating cars to a major winter cleaning.

 

Returning to school after the holidays students shared their emotional reactions to the news about human suffering throughout the lands touched by the Indian Ocean.  A recent ACND alumnus involved in the US Navy rescue work in Sumatra has been in e-mail contact with the students sharing his first hand experience of the people needing assistance. The students have responded generously, tapping into their personal funds for collections in homerooms and in the school cafeteria.

 

Seeking to supplement these contributions, members of the school’s National Honor Society, Edmund Rice Community, and Student Government have pooled their resources to  organize the weekend activities.  Car washes at ACND have become a tradition in connection with the annual Hunger-fest, a March fasting experience designed to raise consciousness about world hunger.

 

When concern was expressed that one event could take from the other, an enterprising student leader with a flair for negotiation as well as marketing declared  that each driver making a minimal contribution of five dollars for Tsunami relief in January  will receive a discount card applicable to  second car wash in the March world hunger event.

 

All are welcome.

           

Media Contact:  Mrs. Kay Clarke-Keffer

305-751-8367, Ext. 17

officeoftheprincipal@acnd.net

www.acnd. net