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St. Jude students giving back to troops, community

St. Jude Thaddeus School is tracking the work its students are doing to help others this Christmas season, both locally and overseas.

In the foyer of the school, a paper thermometer is taped up to the wall, flanked by a mountain of non-perishable food and the red tracker shows 528 pounds. Just up the stairs in Carly Brunk's eighth-grade class, students began stuffing stockings with candy canes and games for troops in Afghanistan.

Brunk said the stockings are a sort of follow-up to last month's candy drive, in which St. Jude's students brought in left-over Halloween candy which they sent along...

 

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