Fundraising for a Haines School playground to be built in honor of former kindergarten teacher Jenae Larson is approaching its minimum $160,000 goal.
“In five months, we raised $110,000,” Larson’s mother, Kim Larson, said. “I put in $25,000 myself. I was paying it forward from all the money people donated to me. That’s how it started.”
Larson was killed in the Dec. 2 landslide on Beach Road. A lifelong Haines resident, she was teaching her…

