Thermometers for Every Cascade School District Family

As stakeholders wrestled with the many logistical challenges of reopening schools sometime soon, it became apparent that thermometers would be needed.

Lots of thermometers—so each student’s home has one.

School board member Cyndi Garza partnered with Kaylin Bettinger, Executive Director of Upper Valley MEND, Sam Jerome, Cascade Medical RN in charge of Employee Health, and Marlene Farrell, Coordinator for Cascade Medical Foundation (CMF), to make it happen.

Garza and Jerome found an inexpensive source for 1000 thermometers at only $3 each.

Farrell and CMF applied for a grant to cover a large portion of the expense.

Bettinger and UV MEND are hosting a public campaign to raise the remaining funds. Anyone who would like to donate can go to their webpage and find the donation link: www.uvmend.org.

This special fundraiser lasts for only two weeks because the thermometers, along with health safety information, soap, dental hygiene supplies and cloth masks, will be distributed to CSD families by the end of August.

If more financial support comes in than is needed for thermometers, the extra funds will be put to good use, likely to help cover hotspots for students who do not have Wi-Fi access at home.