We would like to again thank our family, friends, and the community for their overwhelming generosity in supporting the Jarret R. Feucht Memorial Fund.  The fund is off to an amazing start and we hope to continue its growth for many years to come.  The money raised through the fund will continue to support music, art, and enrichment programs in the Olentangy School District.  We also will be working on establishing an annual scholarship to be awarded to a graduating senior in the Olentangy District.  The initial focus of the fund has started with contributions to Oak Creek Elementary, Jarret's school.  As the fund continues to grow we will be reaching out to the entire district to help support programs district wide.  Here is a glimpse at what the fund has been able to accomplish this year:

 

 

Children's books for the Oak Creek Elementary Library:  Jarret's Nana, Terri Anderson, is a retired art teacher.  Terri taught and served as the Art Department Head at the Lakota Freshmen building in the Cincinnati area for many years.  Following Jarret's passing many of her teaching peers and Nana and Papa's friends from the Cincinnati community donated generously to the Memorial Fund.  The money from these teacher's and close friends was set aside to be used for children's books.  To date, Nana has been able to purchase several cases of books from Scholastic which will all be given to Oak Creek Elementary at the start of the 2008/2009 school year.  Nana was able to select a wide variety of books appealing to students ages K-5th grade.  She included subjects close to Jarret's heart such as dinosaur books, animal and nature books, sports, Dr. Seus and some selections from Marc Brown's "Arthur" series to name a few.  Ashley Feucht, Jarret's little sister, will deliver the book collection this fall when she begins kindergarten at Oak Creek Elementary.

 

Oak Creek Elementary Outdoor Classroom and Gardens:  An outdoor shelter house and gardens were dedicated to the memory of Jarret on April 11, 2008.  The Oak Creek PTO has generously raised funds to begin building  an outdoor shelter house that will serve as an outdoor classroom for the students.  The Scotts Company donated $5,000. to be used towards the entire project.  The Jarret R. Feucht Memorial Fund will also contribute financially to the butterfly garden, the vegetable garden, as well as assist with ongoing fund support of the project.  The Memorial Fund will purchase two memorial park benches.  One bench in memory of Jarret.  The other bench will be dedicated to the memory of Lezlie Allen.  Lezlie, mother to Gracyn Allen, a first grader at Oak Creek, passed away this past fall.  Prior to her death, Lezlie was organizing the donation of trees to be planted on the school grounds in memory of the lives Jarret saved through his gift of organ donation.   Lezlie, a former co-worker with Eric and Jennifer Feucht at NBC 4, and beloved mother and friend will be dearly missed.  Through the generous gift from a Feucht family friend, three oak trees were donated and planted on the school grounds in the outdoor classroom area.  This area will become the Oak Creek Memorial Tree Garden.  The three trees that reside there today represent the two adults and one child that Jarret was able to provide with the gift of life.