On Oct. 1, the Genoa High School Leadership Core Team held a Box City event to raise awareness about homelessness in the Toledo area.

The event, held from 7 p.m. to midnight, also raised funds and collected needed items for The Beach House Family Shelter.

“It was a chillier fall day but we still had over 70 high school students show up, along with about 15 adult chaperones,” said Kelley Pollauf, a GHS senior and a member of the Leadership Core Team, an organization started this year by Assistant Principal Cari Buehler.

“Our mission statement as a group is ‘United, yet unique, coming together to achieve passion and Comet pride,’” Pollauf said.

The event included live musical entertainment,” Minute to Win It” style games, volleyball, corn hole and a box-decorating contest, using about 70 boxes donated from Samsen Furniture in Genoa.

The students met over the summer and decided to support the Beach House. “We actually got the chance to meet and interact with the residents at the Beach House, including some very special children.

“The week before the Box City event, we had a Change change war that was Boys vs. Girls, Sweatpant Days and sold t-shirts to raise money for the Beach House,” she said, adding that students also collected items needed by shelter residents.

“All in all, we raised about $1,300 for the Beach House, and filled (Beach House Executive Director) Tammy Holder’s car with boxes upon boxes of needed items,” Pollauf said. “ It was truly inspiring for Tammy, the staff and myself to see how the Genoa students came together to support a cause.

“We are hoping that this event will be able to continue in Genoa, and expand as the years go by,” she said.

More than 70 students came out to the Box City event, sponsored Oct. 1 by the Genoa High School Leadership Core Team. The event was organized to raise awareness about homelessness in the Toledo area, and to collect funds and donations for The Beach House Family Shelter.

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