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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 25, 2005

 

Post Tsunami on Second Avenue

 

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

 

Students directed drivers onto the ACND campus where teams equipped with soap and water and a mountain of recently collected towels treated cars to a major winter cleaning.

 

Returning to school after the holidays students had 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 Indonesia  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 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 the 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.

 

The total proceeds, in excess of two thousand dollars, will be presented during a Mass at the ACND Prep initiating Catholic Schools Week (January 31 – February 4, 2005). Monsignor Franklyn Casale, President of St. Thomas University will be the chief celebrant.  Brian Stevens, Director of Catholic Charities, for the Archdiocese of Miami will accept the gift to be used by Catholic Relief Services for direct assistance to survivors of the Tsunami destruction.

 

 

 

Media Contact:  Mrs. Kay Clarke-Keffer

305-751-8367, Ext. 17

officeoftheprincipal@acnd.net

www.acnd. net