Students learn the power of giving through painting pet portraits

WINNECONNE, Wis. (InvestigateTV) — Seventh graders at Winneconne Middle School are painting pet portraits for a community project.Students in Susan Meunier’s new leadership class are tracing and painting portraits of pets. Vaughn Wurtz and her classmates are working on the project at the school.“We had to do a project for something to do with the community that benefits the community,” Wurtz said.Aubrey Salm and Paul Reinke helped come up with the idea.“We’re doing pet portraits for Go Fetch and we’re going to donate all of the money to the humane society,” Salm said.Meunier said the students are working hard on the portraits.“They are putting so much effort into it,” Meunier said.She said the students told Go Fetch in an interview, “It might not be the best painting but we’ll try our hardest.” Meunier said they are trying hard on everything.Meunier said the value of the project is in the lesson.“I’m glad they’re seeing the work it does, but really the reward for that work, it’s defini