Beth-Center doing its part to help Texas flood victims
Beth-Center School District will be doing its part today to help the flood victims in Texas.
The Bulldogs, who won their opener at Sto-Rox last week, 32-26, host Yough tonight and anyone attending the game can make a donation to those in need in Houston and the surrounding affected area.
Hurricane Harvey has unloaded record amounts of rainfall that has caused disastrous widespread flooding.
“It’s such a devastating thing, you really can’t imagine it unless you see it,” said Beth-Center teacher and baseball coach Frank Pryor, who came up with the idea of collecting money for the victims.
“A couple teachers and I discussed doing that and we went to our principal, Aaron Cornell, and ran the idea across him and he said sure, go with it.”
Beth-Center will begin the drive at school today.
“We’re going to hold a ‘hat day’ for everyone at school so they can have the opportunity to make a donation for the cause,” Pryor said.
Then at tonight’s game Pryor said there will be Beth-Center student-athletes at the gate who will be collecting money.
All proceeds will be sent to flood victims, Pryor said.
“We will sit down on Tuesday at school and discuss what would be the best way to go about helping the flood victims, whether it’s the United Way, American Red Cross, Brothers Brother, or some other, we will make sure 100 percent of what we collect is donated to helping those in need down there,” Pryor said.
Pryor noted his school isn’t the only one reaching out to help those effected by the flood.
“Duquesne, Robert Morris, Waynesburg University, and there are probably a lot of others who are also taking steps to help those people,” said Pryor, who also commended Houston Texans football star J.J. Watt — brother of Steelers rookie linebacker T.J. Watt — for raising money for the victims through his Justin J. Watt Foundation. “What he’s doing is amazing, raising millions of dollars.”
Beth-Center won’t collect quite that much, but every little bit helps, Pryor pointed out.
“We’ll collect whatever we can get and try to do our part to help,” he said. “Anything we can do is a positive.”