Ninety eight students participated in the Countryside Tournament held on Saturday the 10th of Dec 2011. The event helped us raise $600 for a national and local charity namely the Forgotten Children/Dave Stone Grant and Samaritan Counseling Center in Barrington. We are proud of our parents but especially for our youth volunteers who entusiastically and generously donate their services. Jane Bradley, Toby Schwartz, Jeevan and Rose Abrahamson were racing to serve their customers with their orders. Thank you to Madison Rossi and Sujit Johnston our teenage helpers and all the parents who are examples for our students. Sujit who has helped us achieve these humanitarian goals for the last 6 years impressed the admissions officer at Brown University with his portfolio of service work he has done for the program. Any college bound student who has worked with Chess Without Borders is welcome to call him for help regarding building a portfolio about their volunteer work to use for scholarships and awards. We are now posting pictures of each event on our web site. Below is a picture of Rose, Jeewan, Jane and Toby checking everything twice!
Joseph Ridgway our photojournalist spent hours capturing pictures of this event. We are indebted to his generosity of donating time and his talent for the services of our students. We recognize that he works full time spends his only free day with us! We will post his pictures whenever they are ready.
None of this would have been possible without the services of Gloria Egler, the pleasant and always available Janitor at Countryside School.
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