ST. GEORGE — The classic Christmas film “It’s A Wonderful Life” famously ends with Jimmy Stewart’s character, George Bailey, standing in his living room, surrounded by friends and family who have just finished running all over the town of Bedford Falls collecting money to save him from a dire financial predicament.
This week, a similar scene played out after a group of sixth-grade girls from Washington Fields Intermediate School raised over $1,600 for a local family in need.
The seven girls hid upstairs while the homeowner, Jennifer Devlin, and her friend Cam Gentry pretended that they needed to talk to Gentry’s employee, Phil Higgins, about a project for the local company Budget Blinds. But the real reason why they brought Phil Higgins into the house was so that the girls could give him the money they’d raised, along with some gifts for him and his wife Christtina Higgins.
The money is intended to help the couple get through the Christmas holidays while their son Trevor Higgins is receiving costly medical care in Salt Lake City for serious injuries he sustained from a motorcycle crash in October.
