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Fifth grade friends band together after seeing loved ones suffer from cancer

May 18, 2012 AAPS News Editor

By Tara Cavanaugh This week a group of Pattengill fifth graders sold t-shirts during lunchtime to help raise money for the American Cancer Society. But this wasn’t a traditional fundraiser: the fifth graders came up […]

Cancer survivor continues push to raise money for research

June 13, 2011 AAPS News Editor

AAPS employee Amy McConnell will walk with a district team in this year’s Relay for Life Ann Arbor. The event will feature more than 400 walkers in the 24-hour relay on June 25 at Washtenaw Community College.

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