Bundled up and wearing orange smocks, Fresno City College students surrounded the college campus Tuesday morning to honor Valley Children’s Hospital and sell Kid’s Day special publications of The Fresno Bee.

Despite having to wake up early and stand in the cold for several hours, FCC students and faculty urged donations with smiles on their faces.

“To be honest…as long as we are earning money, for kids that are ill, and for cancer, that’s all that matters” said FCC Game Club member Tiffany Amesquita.

Student Activities ordered 7,200 newspapers in anticipation of selling all of them. While it has not been released as to how much money FCC raised, the clubs who participated set individual goals to increase their number of sales; proving to be extremely successful.

“I’m not sure about what the rest of the people have, but I guess my goal is to sell all of the newspapers at my corner,” said Student Activities representative Shiney Thao.

In an effort to increase sales, clubs showed their enthusiasm by dressing up in costumes and dancing in traffic.

“When cars pass by me I just start wagging my tail and it makes people smile,” said Game Club member Chrystian Major. “I’ve gotten three people to stop their cars and laugh…and say, [that] they’re…‘going to go get some money out of the bank.’”

He and Amesquita occupied the intersection on McKinley and Van Ness with their fellow club members. To promote their gaming club and increase their sales, the members of the organization dressed in some of our cultures’ favorite gaming characters.

Major sported a Yoshi costume and Amesquita danced along the median as Toad.

Not only did loud music and adrenaline from fear of getting run over excite participating students, but coffee and good company kept their minds off of the cold weather and early morning.

“We [all] had a lot of fun,” said Thao. “We were all drinking coffee; we were all hyper so of course we were happy; we just danc[ed] on our own corner and I think it was really fun.”