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Students Jump For Heart Association
 | | Justin Blackmore, Dylan Giacobbi O'Brien and Daniel Danasco, pictured above with MTES teachers Sue Dyer and John Portuese and American Heart Association Regional Director of Youth Marketing Andrea Jacobs (center back), were the top fundraisers. At right, students enjoy their fundraising activities. |
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MANCHESTER TOWNSHIP - Manchester Township Elementary School students raised over $13,000 for the American Heart Association through their annual Jump Rope for Heart event; once again making the school number one in fundraising in Ocean County this year.
Over 400 students, or about 80 percent of the student body, had a great time jumping rope and performing other fun physical activities for the fundraiser, with sponsors making donations based on their participation. Outdoors, there were plenty of jump-roping, hula-hoops, sack races and hippity-hop balls. Inside the gym there was hopscotch and even a moon bounce.
MTES has raised over $100,000 in 11 years of Jump Rope for Heart and has been among the top fundraisers in the state, according to organizer John Porteuse, a physical education teacher at the school. The top fundraising students at MTES this year were Daniel Danasco, Dylan Giacobbi O'Brien and Justin Blackmore.
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