ROCHELLE – Local teachers will be rallying around a fellow colleague next month and are asking the community to join in.
Kings Elementary School will be hosting a fundraising event at T-Byrd Lanes next month to help benefit one of its long-time teachers who is battling breast cancer for the second time.
The event, which they have titled “Strike Out Cancer” will be held on Saturday, Nov. 16 beginning at 5 p.m. at T-Byrd Lanes in Rochelle. The event will feature many activities for people of all ages such as bowling, basket raffles, silent and live auctions, a 50/50 raffle, food and drinks, music and many different giveaways throughout the night.
All of the proceeds earned through the event will be used to help Tammy Greene offset her medical expenses from fighting this disease.

“We host a fundraiser event at the school every year that we call spirit night and usually the funds go the school’s extracurricular activities,” explained Niki Adamski, parent of a student and school board president. “But this year it was a different need and had a different feel for sure, so we thought we needed to do something a little bigger. Something that would bring in more than just people with a kid in the school.”
This whole event was put together by the parents of kids in the school and not the school itself.
Greene has been a teacher at Kings School for approximately 30 years, coming in as a seventh grade history teacher and then, after five or six years, switching to fourth grade where she has been teaching since. During her time as a teacher she has been so involved with the school and both the kids and their parent’s lover her.
Many of the faculty and staff even had her as their teacher when they attended Kings School as a child.
“She was my teacher as well and now she has second generation because my daughter has her as well. The families all have a really cool bond with her, because she took us on all of our junior high trips and now she is taking all of our kids on these trips,” added Adamski.  
Greene has previously beaten breast cancer and had been in remission for the last nine and a half years before finding out in May that her cancer had returned.   
Bowling slot reservations are on sale for $10 each that include three games of bowling, shoes and prize opportunities or four packs for $50, which include three games of bowling, shoes, prize opportunities, a pitcher of pop and an appetizer. Attendees can have up to eight people per lane.
Reservation forms can be acquired from the school or printed off their Facebook page “Tammy Greene Benefit” and must be returned to the Kings School office, with checks made payable to Tammy Greene Benefit.