For two weeks, students at Farrer Elementary in Provo have been remembering two fellow students by raising money, writing cards to the students' family and launching balloons.

Seven-year-old Daniel Lopez and 8-year-old Jennifer Lopez were killed in a car accident in Provo Canyon last month. So far, an account set up in the children's names has about $2,000 in it, $1,600 of which was deposited by the school at the end of May, according to school officials.

A Provo school board member would also like to donate the proceeds from the sale of five Stadium of Fire tickets to the family. School board member Sue Curtis tried to sell her extra tickets to see Miley Cyrus at the Stadium of Fire on eBay, but she didn't get any bids. The tickets are in the lower bowl of the stadium and are still available for those wishing to help the Lopez family and see the teen sensation Miley Cyrus, aka Hannah Montana, when she performs in Provo on July 4. Curtis purchased 25 tickets when they first became available and plans to attend the show, but has more tickets than she needs because family members decided not to take them.

Curtis can be contacted at snue@comcast.net.

"We were hoping it would be a win-win," she said.

Curtis said the gesture has nothing to do with her school board position; she just wanted to help because she said she feels bad for the family. She said she plans to sell the tickets for about $100 a piece.

"I just feel so bad for the Lopez family," she said.

A fund in the children's names was set up at Washington Mutual on 300 North and University Avenue in Provo, and School Principal Don Dowdle said donations are still being accepted.

On the last day of school last week, the school invited Daniel and Jennifer's family to the school to watch the balloon launch and dance festival. Dowdle said the children's parents, grandmother and older brother came, released pink and blue balloons (pink for Jennifer and blue for Daniel) and thanked the school. The students were touched.

"Several of the kids came up and said, 'You know the balloons went up to heaven just like Daniel and Jennifer,' " Dowdle said.

The school has already received responses from people who have found the balloons. One balloon made it all the way to Missouri in about 24 hours from the time it was launched.

According to police, Daniel and Jennifer were riding in a passenger car driven by their mother, Maria Ruiz, on May 18. The accident happened when Ruiz attempted to turn left out of the Vivian Park recreation area onto U.S. Highway 189 in Provo Canyon and didn't see an oncoming pickup truck. The truck T-boned the car on the left side, and the two children were ejected from the car.

• Brittani Lusk can be reached at 344-2549 or at blusk@heraldextra.com.