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Poland Union Elementary School helps send Christmas trees overseas
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Neighbors | Alexis Bartolomucci.Poland Union Elementary Students gave Pioneer Trails Tree Farms a check to help send Christmas trees overseas to those serving in military. Covelli Enterprise matched how much the Poland Union students made dollar for dollar.
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Neighbors | Alexis Bartolomucci.The children of Poland Union Elementary School are pictured standing with a member of the Pioneer Trails Tree Farm, a shift manager at a local Panera, and the Director of PR and Marketing for Covelli Enterprises. Pictured, from left, (front) are Lilly Trolio, Matthew eard, Cassie Blanch, Parker Ogden; (back) Mary Jan Perdulla, Jessica Morris and Ashlee Mauti.
By ALEXIS BARTOLOMUCCI
Poland Union Elementary School has been creating ornaments to raise money for the Ohio Christmas Tree Association. Pioneer Trails Tree Farm visited Poland Union on Nov. 20 to receive a check to help fund Operation Evergreen, which sends Christmas trees to troops overseas.
As part of Union’s “Give Back” program, students brought in spare change on two Fridays in October to donate to Operation Evergreen. Students also created ornaments to send overseas for the troops to decorate their trees. The students donated approximately 500 ornaments.
Ashlee Mauti, the marketing and public relations director at Covelli Enterprises, attended the presentation with Jessica Morris, a Canfield Panera Bread manager, and Mary Jan Perdulla, a representative from Pioneer Trails Tree Farm. The check was presented by four Poland Union students: Cassie Blanch, Lilly Trolio, Matthew Beard and Parker Ogden. As the four students presented the check to Perdulla, the rest of the attendees applauded loudly.
“The PTO and the kids sponsored the give back program. All the kids came in and collected change. The kids raised around $800 and Covelli Enterprises matched dollar for dollar what they raised in order to give them $1,700 to send the trees overseas to the troops,” sad Mauti.
Poland Union students and faculty worked hard to collect the money and are happy with the outcome. The willingness of Covelli Enterprises to match what the students raised showed enormous support for the troops, especially during the holidays.