ad_1]
LOS ANGELES — Actor Steve Carell is sending Southern California highschool college students affected by the devasting wildfires in Los Angeles to the promenade free of charge.
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.
“If in case you have already paid in your promenade tickets, they’ll reimburse you in your promenade tickets. It’s a fairly whole lot,” Carell mentioned.
The Los Angeles space fires destroyed greater than 16,000 houses, companies and different constructions and killed a minimum of 29 folks within the Pacific Palisades neighborhood and Altadena space north of Pasadena. It additionally scorched college campuses, upending the lives of 1000’s of scholars and oldsters who had been left scrambling on the lookout for lecture 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 usually vary from $100 to $150 every.
“Going to promenade must be a celebration, and we wished to assist make the large night time just a bit simpler for seniors whose lives have been turned the wrong way up by the wildfires,” Ron Fitzsimmons, government director of Alice’s Youngsters, mentioned in an announcement. “Hopefully this permits the scholars to unwind and have some enjoyable after a devasting 12 months.”
An Instagram video posted by John Muir Excessive College, one of many recipient colleges, present college students clapping and cheering as they had been stunned with Carell’s announcement throughout a college meeting.
One other recipient consists of Aveson Constitution College, whose campus for kindergarten via fifth grade college students burned down within the fires and constructing for sixth via 12th graders is broken and unusable.
Carell additionally participated within the star-studded “Skate for LA Robust” hockey match final week to lift cash for fireplace reduction.
In closing, the actor mentioned: “Have enjoyable, benefit from the promenade. And keep in mind, that is Steve Carell.”
This text was generated from an automatic information company feed with out modifications to textual content.
