Nonprofit helped district family in 2019

SLIPPERY ROCK — Eighth-grade students at Slippery Rock Elementary School baked for an entire day to prepare 45 dozen cookies as part of a fundraiser for a Pittsburgh area nonprofit that in 2019 helped a family from the school district.

Jaime Armstrong, a fourth-grade teacher at Slippery Rock Elementary School, said she started the fundraiser because of her connection to the Geist family, which was helped by One Day to Remember when Jason Geist was going through cancer treatments. One Day to remember provides a curated experience individualized for each family with a parent going through cancer treatment.

After passing out papers about the fundraiser on Halloween, interested students began baking Nov. 10.

“We did it all at the middle school,” Arm

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