WASHINGTON, Dec. 15, 2006 -- The pennywise students of Hawthorne Middle School, in Pocatello, Idaho, can afford to be proud of themselves. In November, the students held a three-week penny drive to raise money for 92 National Guard servicemembers recently deployed from Pocatello. Hawthorne students come from the poorest parts of Pocatello, and the penny drive gave each one a chance to participate in the fundraising effort, school officials said. “You walk down the sidewalk and see pennies on the ground,” Carol Hill, director of Hawthorne’s Student Leadership Group and school counselor said. “We didn’t ask them (to donate),...