Malden Police vs. Beebe School All-Stars Basketball Fundraiser

Proceeds benefiting upcoming students’ trip to ‘Nature’s Classroom’

By Steve Freker

It was a real battle on the hardwood Tuesday night, but it was all for fun at the Beebe K-8 School gymnasium. The Beebe School educators “All-Stars” hosted the Malden Police Basketball stars for a hoop showdown and it drew a great crowd. The event included a night of competition, heads-up play and a lot of laughs and smiles.

Most importantly, it was a big fundraiser night for students of the school who will be attending the Nature’s Classroom trip later this spring for the first time in a number of years. Nature’s Classroom is a multi-day, sleepover field trip at a supervised camp in Charlton, Mass., where students go through a full slate of activities, which include exploring the outdoors and getting a first-person view of nature up close, in real time.

The Malden School Committee, at meetings held earlier this year, heard presentations from representatives of the city’s K-8 schools and approved trips to Nature’s Classroom for this school year. This will be the first time in a number of years Beebe School has sought to send students to the Nature’s Classroom experience.

Ther small admission charge for Tuesday night’s game is all going toward defraying the cost of the trip. The fundraising night was one of a number of events the Beebe School is hosting to make sure that every student that wants to take the trip has that opportunity.

Many of Beebe’s teaching faculty took part in the event, as did plenty of Malden Police patrolmen and supervisory officers. Included were the contingent of Student Resource Officers and supervisor Sgt. Rob O’Brien, who are assigned to the Malden Public Schools. Also on hand to cheer on the educators and the MPD players was Malden Superintendent of Schools Timothy Sippel and Malden School Committee Vice Chairperson Jennifer Spadafora.