Tiny Helpers for Relay for Life

Relay for Life, a community walk to raise money for cancer research, took place Friday night in West Orange -- and the '09 class from Montclair's Over the Rainbow Nursery School was there.  

Possibly the smallest alumni at the walk, the kids, now first graders, wanted to give back to the community and to their beloved nursery school.  Friday marked the sixth year that the teachers' team at Over the Rainbow participated in the Relay for Life event in West Orange.  

Members of the Montclair OTR class of 2009 who participated in the walk were: Luli Harrison, Ava Chickering, Sophie Chapman, Olyvia Okochi,Chloe Schuster, Dayton Friedberg and Julia Duren-Lubanski.  The girls live in Montclair, Cedar Grove, and West Caldwell.

To help their former teachers raise money for the event, the civic-minded alums sponsored a jewelry sale on Monday, June 13 at their former school. Stepping back into their old classroom, the girls helped teach the current pre-school students some jewelry-making techniques and also contributed some of their own homemade pieces to the sale.  Their efforts raised $271 on Monday, and over $600 over the last two years.