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PatchCast: Bayless Pen-Pal Program Bridges Diversity Gaps

Also, a Kirkwood girl donates teddy bears to the youngest victims of the Sunset Hill's New Year's Eve tornado, and Wildwood students turn neon-colored duct tape into profit for a local animal shelter.

Bayless Intermediate Students Bridge Divides with West County Pen Pals:  Tiffany Markus’s fourth-grade class has spent the year exchanging letters with fifth-graders at Chesterfield Elementary.

First of 1,000 Teddy Bears Goes to Tornado Victims:  A Kirkwood 9-year-old begins donation of new bears she collected for others, when she learned of the shooting death of Christina Taylor-Green in Arizona.

Local Girls Stuck on Charitable Efforts with Duct Tape:  Eight Pond Elementary students sell duct tape accessories to benefit the Chesterfield Humane Society.

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Outstanding in Oakville: Kelly Eller:  Eller was inspired by another female to be a police officer and now hopes to pay it forward in Oakville schools.

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