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Students send warm gifts to Lancaster shelter

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Right: Elizabeth Davis’
fourth grade class at Branch
Elementary School prepared 60
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to the Lancaster Community
Shelter. The scheduled delivery
date for the scarves is Dec.
17, just in time for Christmas.
Far right: Finished scarves
and Christmas cards wait to be
delivered to a Lancaster, Calif.,
homeless shelter.