This year's trophy winner, selected by LLS staff, is Walter Johnson High School, where Holt helped get the whole competitive tradition started in 2006. Their new fundraising event, Cats 4 the Cure Music Fest was a music festival for the school community, featuring notable musicians -- and a Leukemia & Lymphoma Society “Honored Hero” patient. Patriot High School's Beard Bounty shaving event (targeting teachers) was First Runner-Up. And Osbourn Park High School's Game Night was Second Runner-Up.
Each schools’ award amounts will be added to their fundraising totals for Leukemia & Lymphoma Society -- funding blood cancer research and providing education and patient services. Past winners are here.
** On Monday April 11, The Stone and Holt Weeks Nature Field Trip Scholarship will sponsor 80 second graders from Dorothy I. Height Elementary School in Washington DC to travel to Audubon Naturalist Society’s sanctuary and participate in a nature program about birds. Photographs and past recipients are here.
** On Wednesday April 27, the caring and compassionate students of Walter Johnson High School’s Seize Life Charity Fashion Show will again benefit the Foundation. The Foundation will add a generous contribution to the night’s proceeds and will give all to Habitat for Humanity. Photographs from last year are here.
** On Saturday April 30, the annual Green Hammer Award -- in memory of Holt and Stone -- will be presented by Rebuilding Together of Washington DC. Rebuilding Together, a group that recruits volunteers to provide free home repairs to low-income homeowners, gives this award to a volunteer or a group who has worked to make homes more green. The Foundation supports this award with a generous donation to Rebuilding Together. Past recipients and photographs are here.
