The art of giving

The Olympics may have ended but it's the students from Pleasant Valley Intermediate School who are taking home the medals for helping the West End Rotary Club raise money for charity through its annual holiday card project. Front, from left, Zach Koshinsky, Audra Jarecki and Shannon Simpson hold the plaques, art kits and packs of cards printed from the designs they submitted during an awards ceremony at the club's breakfast meeting. Standing behind them, from left, are Melinda Ludwig, PV Intermediate School art teacher; Honi Gruenberg, Rotary's holiday card project coordinator; and West End Rotary President Jill Rehrig. Each year West End Rotary commissions artwork from PV students to grace its holiday cards, which are sold throughout the region to raise money for community projects.