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Farragut youth build playhouses for charity
Leslie Tucker - Thu, Feb, 17, 2005
Starting today, their playhouses will be on display at the Dogwood Village House and Garden Show held at the Knoxville Convention Center through Sunday, Feb. 20.
At 4 p.m., Saturday, the public is invited to particpate when the playhouses are auctioned off to the highest bidder; proceeds will benefit the National Kidney Foundation of East Tennessee. Also up for auction will be custom made doghouses.
This is the second year Jack Reed’s FHS Carpentry I class has built a playhouse for the event. Students spent more than two months working on the project.
The hard work and handiwork of some Farragut High School students will soon go to help the National Kidney Foundation.
Eagle Scout candidate Michael Horning, a FHS junior, also chose to build and donate a playhouse for his Eagle project.
“He was looking for something different and more involved than anything he’d done before,” said Horning’s father, Jeff Horning.
Horning, who began work on the playhouse around Thanksgiving last year, enlisted the help of friends and fellow scouts, Troop 18 from Farragut Church of Christ, and asked for community donations to fund the project.
Horning’s work inspired his mother, Pam, and sisters, Melissa, 13, and Meredith, 10, to use his leftover materials and build a doghouse, which will also be donated to the auction.
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