Monday, December 10, 2018

Students at St. Peter Lutheran School Help Raise Funds for K9 Bullet-Proof Vest

Posted on December 8, 2018
Author Jacque Ryan, WKVI


NJPD K9 Jimy     Photo Source: Peggy Bohac

Students at the St. Peter Lutheran School recently held a fundraiser to help purchase a new bullet-proof vest for the North Judson Police Department’s K9 Jimy.

At Monday evening’s Town Council meeting, Town Marshal Kelly Fisher shared that about $630 was raised through the school’s fundraiser. Marshal Fisher, K9 Handler Officer Rico Simpson and his trusty partner Jimy went to the school at the end of November in order to take part in the incentive event that was promised to students.

Fisher explained, “Over a week, the kids had to raise money and they had a jar that they put the money in for the principal and, I believe, the vice principal and whoever got the most got duct taped to the wall so we went and participated with that.”

Other faculty members had jars in their classrooms as well. The two jars that gathered the most funds were those belonging to Principal Rhonda Reimers and 7th and 8th-grade teacher Steve Lee. As promised, the principal and teacher were good sports and allowed themselves to be duct-taped to the wall in the gym to celebrate the successful fundraiser.

More pictures from the event taken by Town Photographer Peggy Bohac can be found below:


Officer Rico Simpson, K9 Jimy, 7th and 8th Grade Teacher Steve Lee and his students


Students standing in line to tape up Principal Rhonda Reimers


Town Marshal Kelly Fisher and Principal Reimers


Officer Rico Simpson, 3rd Grade Teacher Rebecca Wenzler, 
Town Marshal Kelly Fisher and K9 Jimy

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