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Sponsored silence helps hospice
11:00am Sunday 6th July 2008
SILENCE is golden for students at one York school who are fundraising for a city hospice.
Students from Year 7 at All Saints’ RC School in York have taken to the water or stopped talking as they help to raise funds for the city’s St Leonard’s Hospice.
About 175 students took part in a sponsored swim, at the swimming pool of The Mount School in Dalton Terrace, or held an hour’s sponsored silence at All Saints.
The events were organised by Dave Guest, head of Year 7 at the school, as part of the citizenship learning that the year-group undertakes each year.
This year the two events raised more than £1,700 for the hospice.
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Free speech, York says...
3:55pm Sun 6 Jul 08
Yes it would be nice to see the city's concillors donating money to this or a similar charity!
As for them keeping silent-no chance!
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Adam McCartney, York says...
12:52pm Sun 6 Jul 08
Could we do the same with our councillors. I will give a years wages to charity if none of them takj for a year.