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Charter Students Shoot Hoops for Heart

Event raises more than $5K for American Heart Association.

School Lane Charter School sixth- and seventh-grade students raised $5,293 for the American Heart Association during the annual Hoops for Heart event on May 8.

The event was held in the morning, and students spent time at various stations, indoors and outdoors, shooting hoops and completing dribbling exercises on the playground and in the gymnasium.

Heart facts were taped up at each station, and students heard from Bruce Fluck of the American Heart Association, who was on hand to present the school with another Hoops for Heart banner to add to the wall. He encouraged School Lane students to eat healthy foods, exercise and steer clear of smoking to help reduce the risk of heart attack and stroke.

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“The donations collected by the students will allow for further research and education, to help the American Heart Association attain its 2020 impact goal of improving the cardiovascular health of all Americans by 20 percent while reducing the deaths from cardiovascular disease and stroke by 20 percent,” Fluck said prior to the event.

School Lane Charter School opened in 1998, the first charter school in Bucks County and the first suburban kindergarten through eighth grade charter school in Pennsylvania.

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