Shepherdstown students help

Through a read-a-thon fundraiser, Shepherdstown Elementary School students raised $1,850 for Jefferson Memorial Hospital’s First Book For Babies program. Shown here: Megan Nesslerodt, obstetrics clinical coordinator at Jefferson Memorial; Principal Suzanne Offutt with students Willow Mason, Will Shively, Zebulon McKee and Wyatt Shively; and Charlotte Porter of First Books For Babies. In the background is nurse Karen Wyson and newborn Avery Peyton Benitez.