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She has raised more than $3,000 so far and is still counting the final proceeds.

“I'm just ecstatic,” Gerou said of the turnout for her raffle at the Poway street fair on Sunday.

Gerou single-handedly solicited hundreds of businesses for donations for prizes to benefit the nonprofit pet rescue group.

Her efforts were inspired in part by her love of animals and her basset, Abraham Lincoln.

And Gerou, who uses a wheelchair, was motivated to prove her physical limitations did not restrict what she could accomplish.

Jerri Caswell, head of the basset hound group, said that Gerou and her parents, Susan Miles and Robert Gerou, had made a lasting impact on her work, both financially and spiritually.

“I am humbled by this amazing family,” Caswell said.

“This family has instilled such a can-do work ethic in this young lady that she is going to go far.” Gerou plans to attend college next fall and become a zoologist.

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Despite entering the event without training, she ran 5:50.Daniel Renak, 19, raised over £1,000 for the Chicken Shed Theatre in Southgate, finishing in 5:34.A father and daughter team completed the course in good time.

David Pinnick, raised £2,000 for Children with Leukaemia, his crossed the line in 4:15.Jessica Pinnick, 13, representing her school JFS in the Borough of Brent in the mini-marathon, raised more than £200 for Norwood.

Her time over the 2.6 miles was 21:08.Michael Goldman overcame numerous injuries, excess weight, lack of preparation, the four- mile hike to get to the start line and the scorching 75 degree heat tom finish in a fairly respectable 6 hours 13 minutes.

He said: “For any who is unsure let me tell you 26.2 miles is one hell of a long way to travel, especially on foot.

I have all the aches and pains and a few monster blisters to prove it.“A massive thank you to everyone who has sponsored me, at the moment I have raised just over £5,000 for Christie’s Hospital, one of the UK’s leading hospitals for treating cancer and all funds raised will contribute to better facilities for young people with cancer, research and developing the use of technological advances.Brother and sister team ...

The playground will cost $307,000.

Since 2001, the school had raised $223,000 through donations, grants and school district funds.

"This year we decided we would make one final push," Portman said.

"We had worked with Kosair before, and we met with them over spring break … asking them for $80,000.

They called me up and said they had a surprise for us, but I had no idea they were going to give us more than what we had asked for." Kosair Charities is a nonprofit organization that provides more than $7 million annually to the community for causes that support children.

"The fact that they worked so hard, we decided we wanted to give them as much as we could," Sewell said.

"It makes us feel so good to have the opportunity to do something like this." Portman said the new playground will have features for children with different impairments.

"It will have almost as many activities for wheelchair-bound students as those students who are ambulatory," she said.

Construction will begin this summer and will be completed by the start of the 2007-08 school year.

Reporter Antoinette Konz can be reached at (502) 582-4232.

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