PORT ANGELES, Wash. — Big yellow school busses showed up instead of limos. And there wasn't a Hollywood A-lister in sight. But it was still a marquee night at Deer Park Cinema, a movie theater on the Olympic Peninsula.
There were stars at this advance screening of The Boys in the Boat - the kids form Sequim High School's Interact service club.
Because they were the ones who helped bring the movie to Port Angeles, which has the closest movie theater to Sequim, where the film's main character, Joe Rantz, once lived.
"It's super awesome that our our story from the little town of Sequim is being shared on such a major level," said Kendra Dodson, one of the Interact Club students. "All the support we're getting it's amazing."
The movie screening, and the gala celebration dinner afterwards, is raising money to build the Joe Rantz Rotary Youth House, a shelter for local homeless kids, in honor of the Olympic Rower who once struggled to find housing. The club plans more fundraising events in the future, with support from a local Rotary club. Their motto? "Just like Joe." And they're living it. Taking on a big task, despite long odds, and using teamwork to succeed.
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