School rallies for boy in need of transplant
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Almost 450 students and faculty line up Friday at South Elementary School in West Fargo to give “high fives†to double lung transplant candidate Jordan Peterson after the students presented him with more than $2,300 that they raised for him and his family in advance of the family going to Texas to wait for lungs. Dave Wallis / The Forum
WEST FARGO â€" A kind word and a helping hand is great.
A kind word and a helping hand with a check can be even better.
Students at South Elementary went with the latter route Friday, giving $2,328.91 to Jordan Peterson, a Fargo 10-year-old waiting for a double-lung transplant.
The Fargo Oak Grove Lutheran Elementary fourth-grader got the rock star treatment from his West Fargo peers, as the 450-plus students filling the South gymnasium chanted Jordan’s name, slowly cranking up the volume and then clapping their hands.
“Jordan, JorDAN. JORDAN! JORDAN!†they yelled.
The chant became a roar when the guest of honor walked onto the scene with his mother, Annette Peterson.
“Well, Jordan, you’re the man!†said Principal Loren Kersting.
Jordan suffers from cystic fibrosis.
He needs a double-lung transplant, and his family will soon move to Houston to be near Texas Children’s Hospital as they wait for the organs to become available.
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Almost 450 students and faculty line up Friday at South Elementary School in West Fargo to give “high fives†to double lung transplant candidate Jordan Peterson after the students presented him with more than $2,300 that they raised for him and his family in advance of the family going to Texas to wait for lungs. Dave Wallis / The Forum
WEST FARGO â€" A kind word and a helping hand is great.
A kind word and a helping hand with a check can be even better.
Students at South Elementary went with the latter route Friday, giving $2,328.91 to Jordan Peterson, a Fargo 10-year-old waiting for a double-lung transplant.
The Fargo Oak Grove Lutheran Elementary fourth-grader got the rock star treatment from his West Fargo peers, as the 450-plus students filling the South gymnasium chanted Jordan’s name, slowly cranking up the volume and then clapping their hands.
“Jordan, JorDAN. JORDAN! JORDAN!†they yelled.
The chant became a roar when the guest of honor walked onto the scene with his mother, Annette Peterson.
“Well, Jordan, you’re the man!†said Principal Loren Kersting.
Jordan suffers from cystic fibrosis.
He needs a double-lung transplant, and his family will soon move to Houston to be near Texas Children’s Hospital as they wait for the organs to become available.
Read more
{Register to be an organ,eye and tissue donor. To learn how, www.donatelife.net or www.organdonor.gov}
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