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Adam Engberg, then a seventh-grade student in Jeffrey Aronsky's business math class, wrote a letter to Wynn Casinos last year requesting an annual report to be used in a business math segment and asking for "any other materials the company wants to send." The response was the requested report, along with a box containing 1,200 decks of playing cards.
La Mesa originally earmarked many of the playing cards for emergency packets to be used by students and their families in the event of a major earthquake requiring students to shelter at school.
That left a large number of decks still available to share with the community.
The cards were put to use offering a diversion to tired firefighters waiting at the local park for their shifts on active duty to begin.
A box with more than 70 new decks was delivered to the incident command post last week by Engberg, Aronsky, La Mesa Principal Pete Fries and Christine Amstutz, supervisor of health services for the William S. Hart Union High School District.
Now an eighth-grader, Adam continues to attend Aronsky's business math class and take part in the Stock Market Game, which precipitated his letter to Wynn Casinos.
Adam's Stock Market Game team "purchased" stock in the casinos as part of the game, and writing a business letter was one of the assignments for both the class and the game.
Adam is planning a follow-up letter to Wynn showing that the casino's product donation has been put to good use.
