Byron-Bergen High School’s Varsity Club recently donated time and resources to the community through a monetary donation to a local charity and a canned food drive.
During the half-time of a recent boys basketball game, Social Studies Teacher Nick Muhlenkamp and Physical Education Teacher Danielle Carson, Varsity Club co-advisors, and several Varsity Club officers presented Ricky Palermo with a monetary donation from the proceeds of the club’s fourth annual Lift-A-Thon fundraiser.
Palermo is a Byron-Bergen graduate who was injured in an accident that left him paralyzed from midchest down. In 1997, Palermo and his family started the Ricky Palermo Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to raise money and awareness for the Miami Project. The Project strives to continue research to cure spinal paralysis and helps local community members manage with paralysis.
Also recently, the Varsity Club collected and donated over 600 non-perishable food items to the Byron-Bergen School District’s Holiday Community Service Project as part of their fourth annual canned food drive.
For the drive, athletic teams competed against each other in an effort to collect the largest amount of food. The junior varsity and varsity boys basketball teams won the challenge for donating the largest amount of food.
The Varsity Club, which includes varsity and junior varsity student-athletes, supports the Byron-Bergen athletic programs with community service projects and fundraising throughout the year.
