Student, pizza restaurants' sweat shirt drive surpasses goal

A Mira Costa High School student's joint effort with a South Bay pizza restaurant chain collected about 1,300 sweat shirts for charity during a recent drive.

The drive, which ended on New Year's Day, easily outdid the goal of 1,000 sweat shirts.
Adam and Debbie Goldberg's Fresh Brothers pizza restaurants worked with 17-year-old Jason Jones' The Sweatshirt Project, collecting sweat shirts in their stores in Manhattan Beach, Redondo Beach and Marina del Rey.

Customers brought in sweat shirts to the stores and Fresh Brothers drivers picked them up from donors.

Jones, who began collecting and donating sweat shirts to two charities during the last two years, will distribute them next year.

Photo from Debbie Goldberg