'Morristown Relief Effort' Part 2: The Penpal Project
Tuscaloosa tornado relief organizer Berit Ollestad has established a penpal program between Alberta Elementary School and Normandy Park School.
How many of you think one of you can change the world? That was Morristown resident Berit Ollestad's opening to a recent presentation in front of second and third graders at Normandy Park School. In this case, Ollestad hoped these kids would be up to the task of changing the world ... with a pen. The married mother of two told the kids about her own childhood in Seattle, about seeing news reports of devastating storms in the midwest, and her desire to help, "but I was so far away," she said. More recently, an adult Ollestad again saw devastation befall the midwest, this time in Tuscaloosa, AL. But, unlike her childhood self that had grown up in Washington State, adult Ollestad has been all over the world, from Miami to Brazil, to …
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