Columbia River Gorge Elementary kicks off Kindness Project with holiday giving tree

Washougal — Columbia River Gorge Elementary School’s Kindness Project started with a holiday giving tree for local families. It originally had 30 gift requests for the Columbia River community to fill, and within two days, all the requests were taken. The school added more requests from other families, and the community ended up fulfilling 74 gift requests. The Booster Club wanted to continue the kindness beyond the holidays, and teamed up with fifth-graders Grace Hack and Bella Bradford, who were working on creating a kindness initiative. They created a calendar that students can fill out with tags. Each tag lists the student, their teacher and their kind action, and it can be written by the students themselves or by another person who witnesses them doing something kind. A random tag was picked in the morning to read during the school news broadcast.