2 MARCH 17, 2022 RIDGEWOOD TIMES WWW.QNS.COM
Ridgewood school to host fundraiser for
local homeless shelters and food pantries
BY JULIA MORO
EDITORIAL@QNS.COM
@QNS
The Joseph Quinn Intermediate
School 77 in
Ridgewood will host its
annual Caine’s Arcade fundraiser
in person this year for
the fi rst time since early 2020.
Sixth-graders at I.S. 77 will
come together Friday, March
18, at noon to showcase their
very own cardboard games
to share with their classmates.
Each participant will
pay an admission fee of $3
and proceeds will go toward
local homeless shelters and
food pantries. Usually, about
$500 is raised among over
200 sixth-graders but every
student gets to participate
even if their family can’t afford
the fee.
Rose-Ann Flanigan, a
special education teacher at
I.S. 77 and the leader of the
event, said that she is thrilled
to bring back this event in
person.
“I’m so excited. It’s such
a great experience for the
kids to see what others built,”
Flanigan said. “They get very
creative with it. We let them
run their own games, so
they’ll explain directions and
give out prizes.”
The event did take place last
year, remotely, which Flanigan
said just wasn’t the same.
Kids weren’t able to play each
other’s games or co-mingle
with other classrooms.
“I missed it,” Flanigan said.
“Last year I was so upset that
we didn’t get to do it to its capacity
because of COVID.”
Flanigan said that there
will be a balloon tower, a
photo wall and much more to
make it nice for the students.
“It’s been so long since we’ve
gotten to do something like
this,” Flanigan said.
Caine’s Arcade started in
2012 with 9-year-old, Caine
Monroy, making cardboard
arcades and running his arcade
out of his dad’s auto parts
shop. A customer decided to
make a documentary after
coming across the arcade,
resulting in donations for a
college fund for Monroy. I.S.
77 and other schools across
the country have taken this
idea and made it their own.
The Joseph F. Quinn Intermediate School 77 Screenshot via Google Maps
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