LOS ANGELES – Actor Steve Carell is sending Southern California highschool college students affected by the devasting wildfires in Los Angeles to the promenade without spending a dime.
The “Workplace” actor and comic mentioned Tuesday in an Instagram video that he was working with the Alice’s Youngsters charity to pay for promenade for seniors at six excessive colleges in Pasadena.
“When you’ve got already paid on your promenade tickets, they are going to reimburse you on your promenade tickets. It’s a fairly whole lot,” Carell mentioned.
The Los Angeles space fires destroyed greater than 16,000 properties, companies and different constructions and killed no less than 29 individuals within the Pacific Palisades neighborhood and Altadena space north of Pasadena. It additionally scorched school campuses, upending the lives of 1000’s of scholars and fogeys who were left scrambling searching for school rooms for his or her children to go to.
Alice’s Youngsters will donate about $175,000 for greater than 800 college students to attend the annual right-of-passage dance for graduating college students. Tickets sometimes vary from $100 to $150 every.
“Going to promenade must be a celebration, and we wished to assist make the massive night time just a bit simpler for seniors whose lives have been turned the other way up by the wildfires,” mentioned Ron Fitzsimmons, govt director of Alice’s Youngsters. “Hopefully this enables the scholars to unwind and have some enjoyable after a devasting 12 months.”
An Instagram video posted by John Muir Excessive Faculty, one of many recipient colleges, present college students clapping and cheering as they had been shocked with Carell’s announcement throughout a college meeting.
One other recipient consists of Aveson Constitution Faculty, whose campus for kindergarten by means of fifth grade college students burned down within the fires and constructing for sixth by means of twelfth graders is broken and unusable.
Carell additionally participated within the star-studded “Skate for LA Robust” hockey tournament final week to boost cash for hearth aid.
In closing, the actor mentioned: “Have enjoyable, benefit from the promenade. And keep in mind, that is Steve Carell.”
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