Jeremiah Johnson, Manager at Walgreens, accepted a donation check for $169.63 from Brownwood Intermediate School student Claire Clayton for Comic Relief’s Red Nose Day fundraiser.

May 21st, 2015 marked the first year for the USA to participate in Comic Relief’s Red Nose Day and it moved Clayton, a BIS 5th grader, to write a letter to her principal, Chuck Chesser, to challenge all of BIS to participate.

BIS raised $125.00 through the purchase of a red noses in the school’s library.  Clayton’s donation brought BIS’s participation in the effort to a total of $294.63.

Red Nose Day is a fundraising campaign initiated by the nonprofit organization Comic Relief. In the UK, Red Nose Day has been going for 30 years and is an inspiring cultural phenomenon that unites people from all walks of life in the interest of saving and changing lives across the globe. Their mantra is, “We believe in a just world free from poverty and use the power of entertainment to create positive change in the world.”

Additional photos from Red Nose Day at Brownwood Intermediate School are viewable at: www.brownwoodisd.org/BISRedNose2015.

Pictured above: (Left to right) Walgreens Manager Jeremiah Johnson, BIS Librarian Carol Gilbreth (Ms. G), BIS 5th grader Claire Clayton, and BIS Principal Chuck Chesser.