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Storm fundraising offers students vital lessons in community service

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BY CARL MACGOWAN
STAFF WRITER

February 5, 2006


Live music played, children made arts and crafts, and families devoured food, homemade or store-bought. But this was no ordinary potluck supper.

The supper, on a recent Friday night at the Westbury Community Center, was the latest effort by Westbury Friends School to help a family displaced by Hurricane Katrina. Even before the potluck, parents, teachers and the student council had raised $3,000 and collected household goods to help a young New Orleans widow and her four children, who fled the storm to Charlotte, N.C."