FLC Students Give Holiday Joy to Others

Last week a group of students from the Freehold Learning Center left their Dutch Lane building to bring a little holiday cheer for some kids who would not be able to be home in time for Christmas.

Members of the school’s student council, many in fourth and fifth grade, went to the K. Hovnanian Children’s Hospital at Jersey Shore University Medical Center to bring toys to 30 of the young patients in the Neptune facility. Dawn Fetterly, one of the advisors for the group said this is the third time they have done this during the holiday season.

Fetterly said the students collected items that were then given to more than 30 children who ranged in age from 1-month-old all the way up to 20-years-old. “It’s incredible to see the students’ faces when they hand deliver a gift to a child in the hospital,” she said.

The trip is coordinated every year by Fetterly and fellow advisor Julie Snedden.