Ms. PVHS is an anticipated event for the Panther Family and community. It is a long-standing tradition of support, encouragement, and love. A recipient is carefully selected, as a family or individual who needs financial assistance due to a major medical disease or illness. Over the course of 14 years, this fundraiser has raised over $315,000 and continues to assist families year after year. Past recipients have had a variety of illnesses and disorders such as Leukemia, Mitochondrial Disease, Spina Bifida, loss of limb, and many other life-challenging and altering events.

Our recipients this year are Charity and Peter Swapp. Charity is five years old and Peter is one year old. They have both been diagnosed with Usher’s disease. This disease wreaks havoc on both their hearing and their vision. Currently, Charity and Peter have or are in the process of getting hearing aids to help them in their communication. They will both eventually lose their hearing altogether and may need to get cochlear implants. This terrible disease will impact their vision leaving them legally blind by their teenage years. Our goal is to help the family afford the needed devices and classes (sign language and braille) that will help Charity and Peter learn to communicate with these limitations increasing the quality of their lives moving forward. We also want to create an experience for them now while they experience less of these limitations. Getting them help early increases the likelihood of them better adapting to their limitations later in life.

There are a few ways to help us support the Swapp Family: One way to be involved is to be a sponsor of this year’s themed shirt. Each year we make a shirt that highlights our recipient and the reason we are working together for them. A 100-dollar donation helps us to pay for the shirts that we sell with ALL the proceeds going to the family. Your name or that of your business will be placed on the back of the shirt. Make checks payable to Pine View High School c/o Ms. P.V.H.S. Another way to get involved is by participating in our silent auction. A variety of items will be auctioned at our Boy’s Basketball game on February 7th. If you would like to contribute items, services, gift cards, sponsorship, etc, contact Adam Dewitt (Student Council Advisor) at gro.21khsaw@ttiwed.mada or give your donation to a student council member. We appreciate donations of any kind. Financial contributions are also accepted. Finally, our sports teams, clubs, and classes will host a variety of events throughout January and February. Such events include a root beer mile, a benefit concert, a half-time dance show, etc. Please join us at these events which will be on the school calendar found at pineview.org

Ms. PVHS is a remarkable event that allows students and our community to give of themselves. The Pine View Family is what it is because of this event. Pine View is a school of inclusion, a school of love, and a school of support. Pine View is powerful when united and willing to help those in need. Thank you for being willing to support us in our efforts; we wouldn’t be able to do it without you!!!