Kiwanian tree sale that almost wasn’t generates $40G for kids

Easy Reader Staff|May 3, 2021
Hermosa Beach School District Superintendent Jason Johnson (left) holds tight to a $10,000 check from the Hermosa Beach Kiwanis Club last Thursday morning at Hermosa's newly opened Vista School. Debating how to deposit the oversize check are (left to right) Vista principal Ted Scott, school counselor Miriam Green, and Kiwanis Cathy McCurdy, Mickey McRae, Glenn Menard, George Barks and Rick Koenig. Photo by Kevin Cody

The Hermosa Beach Kiwanis is donating $40,000 in proceeds from last December’s Holiday Tree Lot to school programs and for college scholarships. Among the recipients is the Hermosa Beach School District counseling program. The Kiwanians gave the program $10,000 last Thursday, following a talk to the club by superintendent Jason Johnson about the need for more counselors because of the pandemic. 

The club had to buy the trees last September, before knowing if pandemic protocols would allow them to have a tree lot in December, at their traditional location on the Community Center lawn.

 “We were puckered up there for a while,” said Glenn Menard, who managed the tree lot.  

 

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