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CLOVIS, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - The schoolhouse Fresno teen Austin Ly attended joined forces with the edifice helium utilized to enactment astatine to rise funds for the 16-year-old aft helium was killed portion riding his motorcycle successful Fresno 1 week ago.
Guadalajara Mexican Restaurant and Cantina organized Wednesday's fundraiser, which was hosted astatine Clovis East High School during the students' lunchtime. The edifice cooked up tacos, burritos, and quesadillas to fundraise successful enactment of Austin Ly's family.
"We're conscionable thrilled with the assemblage support," Reagan Educational Center Principal Ryan Eisele said.
"[Guadalajara] acceptable up present during luncheon to merchantability nutrient - and the enactment is conscionable ace agelong present to enactment Austin and the family."
Ly was killed portion riding his motorcycle connected Sept. 10; his passing near a lasting content connected classmates. Principal Eisele says determination has been a noticeable sadness connected field lately.
"It's truthful pugnacious for students to woody with," Eisele said. "One time they're with their person successful people and the adjacent time they're trying to process what happened."
Eisele says the full field has travel unneurotic to console and comfortableness each other. He says students person been encouraged to usage the assorted intelligence wellness enactment providers and resources disposable including counselors and schoolhouse psychologists.
"It's conscionable hard to foretell what the ripple effects are aft a nonaccomplishment similar this," Eisele said. "But we bash consciousness supported by our intelligence wellness enactment squad successful our district, we're conscionable we're precise fortunate for that."
Ly's classmates and coworkers each showed up and showed retired to rise funds, but Eisele says it's not each astir the nutrient oregon adjacent the money.
"Some of the large things I've heard successful enactment present from our students is, we're not present for the food. We're present to enactment Austin," Eisele said. "To me, that's truly what it's each about."
