Save the bears, sponsor a statue

The Palmetto Ridge High School National Honor Society is raising funds for the Florida Wildlife Foundation to help protect their school mascot, the Florida black bear. Construction academy students are building wooden bear statues that will be custom decorated by local artists and then auctioned off to raise financial support.

Statue sponsors will have their names on metal tags on their decorated bears and be recognized in a guidebook and on the school website.

To sponsor a bear statue, send a $200 check made out to PRHS, attention Bob Scallan, to Palmetto Ridge High School, 1655 Victory Lane, Naples, Florida 34120.

– Katie Betz, C2 Communications