Students in Bradley are using their literary skills to fight disease.
After months of fund raising, kids from Viola Rand Elementary reached their goal of collecting $1,000 for the new Raish Peavey Haskell Children's Cancer and Treatment Center in Brewer.
On Monday they presented a check during an Eastern Maine Medical Center Heroes, Hope, and Healing assembly.
The kindergarten through fourth graders wrote an essay about a hero of theirs, reaching out to friends and family for donations.
Schools administrators tell us they try and instill a sense of respect, responsibility, caring and knowledge with their students.
The students also creatively expressed their compassion. They made a thousand paper cranes to be displayed at the hospital.
Literary Skills to Fund Cancer Center
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