Pleasant Lake students raise more
ago
to help a family forever changed by the Sept. 11 attacks.

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ELIZABETH APPLEBAL'N1

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Above: An and Levi
Teitel, ages 7 and 5
respectively, of
West Bloomfield
raised money singing
for the family.

Right: Evan Gelzayd, 7,
ofWest Bloomfield is
comforted by his mother,
Julie, at Pleasant Lake
Elementary.

Far right: Karen Simon
and her daughter, Maya,
9 months, accept their
check.

leitel \vas certain
of one thing: He
was Hot about to
make bracelets.
Aris principal, Mr. Dale,
had sent home a letter encour-
aging, families to think or ways
to aid victims of the Sept. I 1
attack. A student at Pleasant
Lake Elementary School in the
iWalled Lake school system,
, was eager to help, as
was his 5-year-old brother,
Levi.
Aris mother—Andrea, sug-
gested the two boys make red-
white-and-blue bracelets and
sell them door-to-door. It
Sounded good to Aris father,
Rob.
Not to Ari. - 1 said, No way.
That's for girls.'" So he played
his guitar and sang instead,
performing the Star Spangled
Banner and a few other songs
utsi e a shopping center.
Passersby were asked
= for a donation,
dropped into a bucket
..,decorated by Levi.
By the end of the
av, An and Levi had
collected S 125.08.
This was added to
hundreds of other
such donations from
Pleasant Lake stu-
dents. for a total of
more than S7,000
Late last-week, stu-
dents gave the money
to Karen Simon,
whose husband,
Kenneth, was killed in