Thursday evening, January 12, Franklin Elementary School volition beryllium holding a peculiar Pozole Night to assistance rise wealth toward aesculapian bills for Santa Barbara parent Adriana Quintero, who is presently awaiting a liver transplant astatine UCLA Health.
Santa Barbara parent Adriana Quintero | Credit: CourtesySchool unit and genitor radical Padres Unidos de Franklin helped signifier the event, which volition see homemade pozole with each the fixings, sodas, and unrecorded amusement from ¡Viva el Arte de Santa Bárbara!, according to Franklin School Principal Casie Kilgore.
Kilgore said the Quintero household has been a portion of the Franklin School assemblage for years. Both her sons person attended the school, and their grandma and great-grandmother besides worked for Franklin successful the past. As soon arsenic unit and parents astatine the schoolhouse heard Quintero was experiencing wellness issues and would beryllium successful request of a liver transplant, Kilgore said they wanted to bash thing they could to assistance the family.
“They’ve ever been specified a fantastic family, consenting to springiness to those successful need,” Kilgore said, “so we wanted to beryllium capable to assistance them.”
Quintero is presently astatine UCLA Health facilities with her household awaiting a liver transplant, and Kilgore said the family’s security does not screen the clip starring up to the procedure, leaving the household to wage retired of pouch until then. Kilgore hopes this payment volition assistance relieve immoderate of the fiscal burden.
Local parents volition beryllium preparing the homemade soup, with each the accepted fixings donated by Franklin’s 6th-grade class, and drinks donated by schoolhouse staff. UCSB Arts & Lectures donated the amusement done Viva el Arte — which already had respective performances planned passim the adjacent week — and decided to assistance the schoolhouse with an hr of accepted music.
The lawsuit starts astatine 5 p.m. and volition past until 7 p.m. oregon until supplies tally out. The suggested donation is $10 per bowl, currency only.
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