Roosevelt Student's Senior Project Honors Breast Cancer Victim's Memory
Alan Fraelich is collecting hat, scarves, gloves and mittens for the Salvation Army in honor of a neighbor who died last year of breast cancer.
The Times Herald recently profiled Roosevelt Alternative School senior Alan Fraelich, whose senior project is dedicated to the memory of his neighbor – a woman he referred to affectionately as "mom" – who died of breast cancer last year. Fraelich created a "mitten tree" to encourage his fellow students to donate hats, scarves, gloves and mittens that he would then take to the Salvation Army – an organization that Fraelich says helped his neighbor's nine children when they needed help most. "Everybody who lived on the street we lived on, we all looked at her as a mom," Fraelich told the Herald. "We all called her mom. She had nine children of her own that all lived with her and she had to take care of by herself." School administrators …
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