For the third

year in a row, Peeples Elementary took top honors in the Fayette Youth

Protection Home's Power Parade.

Nearly 200

students took part in raising $5,262 for the homes for abused and neglected

children. This was part of the grand total of over $18,000 raised by Fayette

County elementary school children.

Three students

at Peeples took top individual honors: Telecia Reed, Chelsea Chastine

and Jeff Hannah with 55 sponsors donating $1,151.41.

The next five

highest schools were Fayette, Kedron, Peachtree City, Brooks and Spring

Hill elementary schools.

Telecia received

tickets to a Atlanta Braves game and other students received fun certificates

donated by DixieLand Fun Park. The school received a $500 gift certificate

from Sportime International, and the two top classes received pizza parties,

compliments of Pizza Hut of Peachtree City. Everyone who raised $25 or

more received a T-shirt designed by Melissa Flanagan, a senior art student

of Fayette County High School.

The Power Parade

is held in conjunction with Child Abuse Prevention Month and physical

education teachers who coordinate the parades at each school take the

opportunity to talk to the students about abuse and how they can provide

help to hurting children.

This was the

13th year of the parade and the slogan, contributed by the Flat Rock Middle

School Beta Club, was "United We Walk In Power." In the 13 years,

Fayette County students have raised over $170,000 toward this cause.