Hillcrest, Edison HS to aid flood relief effort

By Daniel Arimborgo

Students from Hillcrest and Thomas Edison high schools were slated to join 75 student leaders from 15 city high schools in a formal conference at the United Nations this week to decide how to allocate $25,000 they had raised to help flood victims in Mozambique.

The event is sponsored by Common Cents New York, a non-profit organization that annually involves 500,000 students in a citywide penny drive, called Penny Harvest, to raise funds for community service. This year