Teen Volunteers Raise $20K In Memory Of Harford County Student

BEL AIR, Md. — Youth volunteers successful Harford County raised $20,000 past period successful grant of a 16-year-old pupil who passed distant earlier this year.

VolunTeen, a Bel Air-based unpaid enactment for Harford County teens, wanted to find a mode to retrieve the bequest of Bailey Bullock, a student-athlete astatine The John Carroll School who died May 12.

So the radical organized Bailey’s Heart & Sole 5K Charity Run, which was held Sept. 19 astatine the Ma & Pa Heritage Trail.

Hundreds of radical — including athletes from The John Carroll School, C. Milton Wright High School and Harford Community College — turned retired to enactment the effort.

All told, the 5K raised $20,000 for the American Heart Association and the Bailey’s Heart and Soul Foundation, which was formed successful the aftermath of Bullock’s death.

“I couldn’t beryllium prouder of the turnout for this race,” VolunTeen President and Founder Drew Evans said successful part. “This is wherefore Harford County is truthful amazing.”

VolunTeen provides Harford County younker with volunteerism opportunities, including raising wealth for worthy causes, making blankets for infirmary patients and assemblage cleanups. Click present to larn more.