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Students donate cellphones for a good cause

By Andrea Honaker

ahonaker@macon.com
Eleanor Anderson, center, and Benjamin Smith, right, present Dee Sims, executive director of Crisis Line and Safe House of Central Georgia, with a check for the money they raised from a cellphone drive.
Eleanor Anderson, center, and Benjamin Smith, right, present Dee Sims, executive director of Crisis Line and Safe House of Central Georgia, with a check for the money they raised from a cellphone drive. Special to The Telegraph

Two local students collected used cellphones to help a local organization. Mount de Sales Academy sophomore Eleanor Anderson and freshman Benjamin Smith gathered more than 100 used cellphones at their school and sold them to a recycling company. They donated the $55 they earned from the drive to Crisis Line and Safe House of Central Georgia.

In other school news, senior Ryan Murphey was named the Mount de Sales Scholar/Citizen/Athlete of the Year by the National Football Foundation and the College Football Hall of Fame​ Middle Georgia Chapter​.

Andrea Honaker: 478-744-4382, @TelegraphAndrea

This story was originally published May 30, 2017 at 11:13 AM with the headline "Students donate cellphones for a good cause."

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