
The kids have NO IDEA!!! Lloyd Marcus, accompanied by parents and students of Deltona Lakes Elementary School, and their classmate Gabrielle LaVerde, requested community involvement at the Deltona City Commission Meeting on May 19th, 2008. While addressing the Mayor and the City Commission, Marcus called upon all Deltona citizens to create their own fund raising efforts and join the students in saving Gabrielle LaVerde. Marcus called on every soccer team, every baseball team, every bar, and every church to do a fundraiser for Gabrielle. Before the meeting adjourned, Commissioner Michele McFall-Conte suggested the city present a proclamation to the students that would create a Deltona Lakes Elementary School Day, to honor their fund raising efforts to save their dying schoolmate. On May 20th, Mayor Dennis Mulder's office contact the school to announce their desire to deliver a proclamation that would create an official DLE day. However, Mayor Mulder is also planning to throw the students a pizza party at DLE on May 27th. The pizza party, Mulder explained, would be a way for the City of Deltona to honor the students, and create awareness for the cause. Brighthouse Networks has agreed to sponsor the pizza, which will be provided and delivered by Little Ceasars. The elementary school collected over $10800 in just a few months for their fellow schoolmate, Gabrielle LaVerde. The elementary school, which consists of approximately 1000 students, worked non-stop in raising <b>...</b>
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