Wednesday Dec 30 2009
Twin Oaks sixth-graders go homeless for a day
By: Photos by Philip Wood, Gold Country News Service
Philip Wood/ Gold Country News Service
Jessamyn DeGamo, left, serves soup to Twin Oaks Elementary School sixth grader Loryn Szeremi Thursday morning in the school?s soup line that simulated what homeless people go through.
Jessamyn DeGamo, left, serves soup to Twin Oaks Elementary School sixth grader Loryn Szeremi Thursday morning in the school?s soup line that simulated what homeless people go through.
Philip Wood/ Gold Country News Service
Jamie Goodwin, left, one of the originators of the soup line and homeless experience on the Twin Oaks Elementary School campus, receives soup from volunteer server Kim Sodervick.
Jamie Goodwin, left, one of the originators of the soup line and homeless experience on the Twin Oaks Elementary School campus, receives soup from volunteer server Kim Sodervick.
Philip Wood/ Gold Country News Service
Twin Oaks Elementary School sixth graders Alexia Louis, left, Jamie Goodwin, Meghan Gibson and Hannah Russ eat their soup and bread together during their ?homeless? experience.
Twin Oaks Elementary School sixth graders Alexia Louis, left, Jamie Goodwin, Meghan Gibson and Hannah Russ eat their soup and bread together during their ?homeless? experience.
Philip Wood/ Gold Country News Service
Parent volunteers act as soup line servers to some of the sixth grade students at Twin Oaks Elementary School who enacted a homeless experience on the campus.
Parent volunteers act as soup line servers to some of the sixth grade students at Twin Oaks Elementary School who enacted a homeless experience on the campus.
Philip Wood/ Gold Country News Service
Jamie Goodwin was one of the students at Twin Oaks who came up with the idea to be homeless for a day.
Jamie Goodwin was one of the students at Twin Oaks who came up with the idea to be homeless for a day.
Philip Wood/ Gold Country News Service
Meghan Gibson was one of the sixth-graders that came up with the idea of being homeless for a day.
Meghan Gibson was one of the sixth-graders that came up with the idea of being homeless for a day.
Philip Wood/ Gold Country News Service
Sixth graders Derek Johnson, left, Garrett Cardoza and Blake Burres share the steps at Twin Oaks Elementary School and have their soup and bread for breakfast.
Sixth graders Derek Johnson, left, Garrett Cardoza and Blake Burres share the steps at Twin Oaks Elementary School and have their soup and bread for breakfast.