FARMINGTON – Fresh from competing at the spring Special Olympics for Franklin County’s athletes yesterday, Cascade Brook School’s special education students are now in the midst of a plant sale to raise money for new training equipment.
The annual plant sale is held as a schoolwide event to help the Special Olympics athletes train and compete in the winter and spring games.
This year, 15 students from two Cascade Brook School classes ran in the 50-, 100- and 200-meter races and competed in the standing broad jump and softball throw events. They were joined by athletes from Jay Livermore Falls and MSAD 58 schools and from community organizations who all competed under blue skies at Mt. Blue High School.
“Oh, they had a great time,” Claudette Merchant, a teacher at Cascade Brook School said of the sporting event.
Rather than resting on their Olympic laurels, the students, with the green thumb help from the school’s staff, are holding the plant sale mostly featuring perennials today and Friday. Helping out today and pictured above are, from left to right: Merchant with students, Leah Stinson, Alexis Nile, Caitlin Perry, Johnnie Barker-Sargent and Michael Webber.
If enough money is raised from the sale, Merchant said they would like to buy a new tricycle so the student-athletes can train and get stronger on more stable wheels than the bicycle with training wheels they have been using.
