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Nov 20, 2009 6:20 pm US/Mountain

Elementary Students Get Pay It 4ward Coats

Written by Suzanne McCarroll

COMMERCE CITY, Colo (CBS4) ― A school psychologist in Adams County asked CBS4 News to pay it forward $1000 to buy winter coats for her students who don't have the resources to buy their own.

Kori Herrera addresses her students every need at Kemp Elementary School in Commerce City. She helps them with their problems, their questions, their school work and now their clothing woes.

"Several of our kids were walking home with no hat, no coats, no gloves and I asked them, 'Do you have a coat?' and they said, 'No'. It was really sad," said Ms. Kori as the students call her.

So Herrera asked CBS 4 News for one thousand dollars to go on a shopping spree at Target at Northfield for her students. She grabbed a shopping cart, and cruised through the aisles, buying more than thirty winter coats, new gloves and new hats for her students.

"If they could start their day with dry clothes , not chilled, not wet, it would put us on a level playing field," said the school Principal Wanda Clark.

Together Clark and Herrera handed out warm coats to kids as they arrived in the school cafeteria.

"Have you ever had a big heavy coat like this?" CBS4 Reporter Suzanne asked a first grader.

"No," she responded.

Sherlyd Wing , a mom at the school, is very appreciative of her daughter's new jacket.

"She doesn't have a coat, we haven't been able to buy her anything," Wing told CBS4.

The girls modeled their pink and flowered and purple coats for our CBS 4 camera. The boys strutted in their navy, black, and taupe jackets. All the kids wore their coats home that day despite the afternoon's warm temperatures. One first grader announced he'd be sleeping in his new jacket he liked it so much.

As for Ms. Kori, she will go back to her counseling duties helping the children with their school work, their problems and their concerns. But for now, what's warming this teacher's heart is simply helping her students stay warm this winter.

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