Mr. PVHS

Mr. PVHS this year picked this darling family in Burke Staheli's Elementary that has a rare form of MD.  Here is the info. This year's beneficiary is the Free family.  Ray Free is a Kindergartner at Riverside Elementary who was recently diagnosed with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy.  This is a genetic disease that is characterized by muscle weakness and degeneration.  After Ray's diagnosis, his younger brother was also tested and was also diagnosed with the same condition.

 Josh was in Mr. PVHS as the Swim Team Rep.  Which was funny because they didn't tell him about it until it was half way done.  So he didn't have time to really do anything about it. Thankfully Heidi Gilmore was already getting a fundraiser concert together for him.  But the Drama rep. and the Choir rep. wanted to do that too so, they combined all three kids together to help out with the concert.  Here is the poster that the Choir put together.  I think that the Drama and Swim team had posters too but I didn't see theirs.

  It was really a great concert and I was impressed with everything except for the fact that the stupid kids from the swim team didn't help Josh out AT ALL and that the Drama and Choir kids hid the Swim Team bucket under the table of the concessions so that no one could put any money in it at the concert.  It was so mad!  Mr. Staheli was wondering where the bucket was so that he could put money in it and so was I.  Finally, I found the mom of the girl who was in charge and she found it on the ground pushed under the table at the very end after it was all over. BBUUGGGGG!  Josh made $198 for the fundraiser.  He was fine with that.  It meant that he didn't have to perform a talent and that he didn't come in last place.  He came in 3rd to last!  Woo Hoo!  2 kids did worse that he did.  I'm just glad he had fun.  He did perform at the talent show however.  It was awesome!  So did Miles.  Miles rode a Hoverboard while playing his bagpipes.  It was funny.  The high school ended up raising over $13,000 for the Free Family!  It was awesome!  PVHS has done this for the last 8 years and has raised over $90,000.  What a great tradition!!!

I didn't go to the assembly because Josh wasn't performing but I also didn't know when it was.  He did do a group dance that I didn't get to see but here are a couple picture's that I pulled off of the PVHS Instagram page.  Apparently it was Star Wars Themed.  I'm just glad he went as a Jedi and not Princess Leah like that other kid did.  Yikes!