2009

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Sends cards to soldiers

ECCC Childcare Students, Staff Send Cards to Soldiers These students and staff members at the East Central Community College childcare facility recently mailed candy and homemade Christmas cards to sol– diers in Iraq and Afghanistan. The gift boxes were sent to Jemeris Payton, son of ECCC Early Childhood Education Director Debra Payton, who is stationed in Iraq and Dwayne Jackson, father of preschool student Lyric Jackson, who is stationed in Afghanistan. The children received e-mail photos of the soldiers after they received the cards and candy. Pictured are (front row, from left) Alexis Windham, Payton Pinter, Layla Love, Maurice Sanders, Natalie Felton, Rebecca Blackburn, Ryann Gorgas, Jesse Smith, Bella Grace Jones and Macy Walker; (second row, from left) Kristina Crabtree, Chamblee Ezelle, Monique McCallum, Samantha Boykin, Kristen Alexander, Benjamin Bozeman, Lyric Jackson, Kemari Brown and

Tanner Strebeck; and (back row, from left) Christa Robinson, Mary Lee Gregory, Chafony Evans, Debra Payton, Kathy George, Michelle Moss, Parker Pinter, Whitney Nash, Madison Moore, Victoria York and Micah Watson. (EC Photo)

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