Jena Spady of Lewellen, a 15-year-old freshman at Garden County High School, put together a donation drive last year that provided winter hats and gloves to more than 200 children at Garden County Public Schools. She’s expanded on that drive this school year, even forming a non-profit organization called Heartfelt Hats and Gloves. She’s on pace to provide hats and gloves this winter to children at Garden County, South Platte, Creek Valley and Minatare schools, and she hopes to provide hats and gloves to even more area schools in the future.
JEFF FIELDER Editor
LEWELLEN – Early in Jena Spady’s eighth-grade year at Garden County Junior High School, she and each of her classmates had to pick a project to work on that would benefit people in the community.
Initially, Spady thought about organizing a clothing drive for local kids. But after thinking about it more, she decided she could make a bigger impact by collecting winter hats and gloves for local kids.
She had noticed over the years that many kids in the Garden County Public Schools district didn’t have hats and/or gloves.
“There’s a huge need around here for hats and gloves,” said the 15-year-old Spady, who lives with her family in Lewellen.
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