While most students were choosing trinkets for their mums, Woodrow Wilson High School junior varsity cheerleaders were choosing a charity. The group voted to donate the money they would have spent on Homecoming mums and garters to neighboring Juliette Fowler Communities' The Ebby House.

"I was so surprised to receive the phone call," said Kristen Mazza, executive director of The Ebby House. "The Ebby House exists solely on donations and we are so grateful for the generosity of these students."

Thursday afternoon, the group presented their contribution to Mazza during a tour of the two story residential house. Open this fall, The Ebby House is a residential program for young women who have aged out of foster care. Newly renovated with the assistance of volunteers and donors, the house will be on the Junius Heights Home Tour on November 9.

To learn more about The Ebby House, go to www.fowlercommunities.org.