Local SONIC restaurants meet teacher needs at Shaver and Alder elementary schools | OregonLive.com

Local SONIC restaurants meet teacher needs at Shaver and Alder elementary schools | OregonLive.com

Local SONIC restaurants meet teacher needs at Shaver and Alder elementary schools

Published: Friday, October 01, 2010, 12:54 PM Updated: Friday, October 01, 2010, 1:03 PM

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Teachers at Shaver and Alder elementary schools were presented with checks to fund classroom projects in surprise ceremonies in September.

"The teachers were amazed," said Cindy Bartman, principal at Shaver. "They work so hard," she said, often spending weekend time applying for grants and funding. The teachers had posted requests at Donorschoose.org, an online charity where teachers write a short essay explaining a classroom need and donors choose projects they want to fund.

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That's where Andrea Wetsel of the Wetsel Co., a SONIC franchisee with four local drive-in restaurants, found them. "We were looking for high-poverty schools in the metro area," Wetsel said. SONIC's national initiative called