Yuletide Road Trip Raises Funds
for Columbine Library
Ending a weeklong trip they called “The 12 Stops of Christmas,” a group of four students arrived at Columbine High School December 25, bringing approximately $15,000 in donations toward construction of a new library for the Jefferson County, Colorado, school that was the site of the April 20 massacre. Jeff Houghton, Stephanie Curtis, Amber Hensley, and Adam Walker collected the funds on a 3,700-mile journey through nine states; along the way they made stops to memorialize each of the student victims, the Denver Post reported December 26.
Houghton, a Columbine graduate, and Curtis, from Ontario, California, came up with the plan in an online discussion. The two then recruited Walker, whose younger brother Ben was killed in a 1998 school shooting in Oregon, and Hensley, who was at Ben Walker’s side when he died.
A group of Columbine parents is trying to raise $3.1 million to rebuild the now-closed school library, where 10 of the 13 people massacred at Columbine were killed. The killers, students Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, also committed suicide there.
Posted January 3, 2000.
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