While most football-loving Americans spent Sunday at Super Bowl parties, students from Clear Lake Elementary’s Peacemakers Club were participating in the First Annual Super Dog Bowl at Collier Lanes in Oxford.
The event, which benefitted the K-9 Stray Rescue League in Oxford, saw 153 youth and adult bowlers take to the lanes and raise somwhere between $600 and $700.
Cheryl Corrion, who is a coordinator for the club along with Dawn Medici, said the kids sold homemade dog biscuits, T-shirts with the Super Dog Bowl logo on it and pins with pictures of dogs that need adopted, to raise extra money.
While taking a break from bowling under the cosmic lights, kids could make wearable dog ears out of construction paper or get a cool tattoo.
Bowlers also got to jive to the tunes of Clear Lake art teacher Jon Hazlett’s band.
The Peacemaker’s Club is a parent-led group dedicated to community service projects. Approximately 35 students from the thrid, fourth and fifth grades are involved.
Besides raising funds for Oxford’s K-9 Stray Rescue League, the Peacemakers visited and made gifts for the residents of Bortz Health Care of Oakland in Orion Township.
‘We just want to make sure, especially with this generation, that they’re out there and they’re involved,? Corrion said. ‘We keep telling them just one person, whether it’s a big person or a small person, can make a difference.?