Maple Hall residents are working to cushion the recovery costs for a Nevada child, after she was burned by the contents of a crock pot.Heather Phillips, Maple Hall director, said she thought of the idea for Penny Wars to help Maple custodian Joy Page’s granddaughter. The fund raiser will end Monday.Penny War rules require Maple students to save pennies and dollar bills to earn points, she said. Pennies are worth one point, bills are worth 100 points and nickels, dimes and quarters are worth negative points. Each floor, Phillips said, is competing with each other to see who can earn the most points for the little girl, Marie Sprecher. Sprecher and her family live in Nevada.”I think it’s really neat how the Maple Hall community has rallied together to help out another member of the community,” Phillips said.Sprecher, 16 months old, suffered from second-degree and third-degree burns on Dec. 30 after she accidentally spilled contents of a crock pot on herself.”She pulled the crock pot on top of herself by climbing the microwave cart next to the counter,” said Leta Page, Sprecher’s mother. “She grabbed the handle and pulled.”Leta Page said she immediately “took [Sprecher] out of her clothes and put her in cold water.” She said her daughter’s chin, arms, shoulders, chest, stomach and leg were burned from the hot contents of the pot. On Jan. 4, Sprecher was taken to Iowa City to undergo skin graft surgery at the University of Iowa Hospital, said Joy Page.Erin Holtman, community adviser for Forbes Floor, said her floor feels very close to Joy Page and is more than willing to help her family.”I think it’s really great that we’re doing this,” said Holtman, sophomore in elementary education. “We feel bad for her family, and we’re happy to do anything to help them out.”Holtman said she hopes the fund raiser will go well and plenty of money is raised for Sprecher’s recovery.Kristen Wisniewski, sophomore in management information systems, has been helping out with the fund raiser by collecting Penny War points during evening food service hours.”I think the Penny Wars are going great; it’s been really encouraging,” she said. “The girls on my floor are motivated and it gave everyone else a sense of competition. I think it has been a success so far. Everyone seems so motivated, and, after we heard what happened, everyone has been so helpful.”Joy Page said she is very appreciative of all the participants who are contributing to the fund raiser to help her granddaughter. “Heather came to me and asked if they could do a fund raiser, and I thought it was a great idea,” she said. “If people find out about the fund raiser, it’ll make people stop and think about if something like this could happen to someone in their family.”Page said Marie is “doing better; she’s stubborn, but she’s getting better every day.”The Penny Wars competition ends at 9 p.m. Monday. Anyone interested in donating money to Sprecher’s fund can send it to Maple Hall or mail it to First Federal Savings Bank, attn: Marie Sprecher, 404 Lincoln Highway, P.O. Box 466, Nevada, IA 50201.