PORT WASHINGTON, Wis. — A group of mostly second graders at Lincoln Elementary School in Port Washington has raised more than $130 selling handmade rubber band bracelets to help repair their broken playground.

The decades-old jungle gym has been closed for most of the Fall due to rust and exposed metal that made it unsafe for students to use.

Port Washington second graders raise over $130 selling bracelets in effort to fix their school's broken playground

For months now, Milo and his after-school friends Jackson, Adalynn, Marlowe, and third grader Norah have been taking action.

Every day after school, the students have been creating rubber band bracelets in the school's gymnasium. What started as a fun activity quickly became a serious fundraising effort.

"We have a new kid in our cla

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