Longmont Christian School students got to throw pies at their teachers and then watch their principals kiss a donkey on Friday — all in the name of charity.
The students spent the week fundraising for Homeless Outreach Providing Encouragement, or HOPE, a nonprofit in Longmont serving the homeless community. This is the second year the school has undertaken this fundraiser.
The students had a couple incentives to raise the money. For every $100 a class collected, their teacher’s name was put in a box. On Friday, names were drawn at random and those teachers got pies put in their faces by a chosen student.
The school had a $4,000 fundraising goal and the students reached over $6,000 in a week.
“We told the kids that if they could do this in a week, we would kiss something,” said Cheryl Hoffman, lower school principal at Longmont Christian.
She and Stephen Layne, the upper school principal, said they would kiss a turkey for this year’s fundraiser, but the turkey chosen for the job got sick this week. For safety’s sake, they decided to kiss a miniature donkey instead.
Afterward, the students also got to pet the donkey.
Longmont Christian School packed 1,000 lunches for HOPE on Friday and the remaining funds will also go to the charity.
