Pines Students Raise Funds for Children’s Arts Foundation

Pines Elementary School music students recently participated in a Practice-a-thon to raise funds for the Courtney Sipes Foundation. The participating students practiced their music a total of 6,052 minutes and raised close to $1,100 in donations.

A former Pines Elementary School student, Courtney Sipes was an amazingly artistic, talented and caring girl who loved music and the arts. Sipes played guitar, trumpet, piano and was a talented, aspiring singer and actress and lyricist. She expressed her creativity through art using mediums such as watercolors, acrylic painting, sculpture and computer graphic art. Sipes cared deeply about others, volunteering her time and raising money to help others in need. Her family and friends established the Courtney Sipes Foundation to honor her memory and to help realize her dream of a better world.