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Boy, 11, going to Hawaii thanks to Make-A-Wish foundation
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Joseph Tippins, center right, and friends Raul Perez, left, and Gus Faulkner pose for a photo with the student body at the University of North Georgia. Joseph attended the basketball game and other campus activities as part of the Make-A-Wish Foundation program. - photo by NAT GURLEY
The temperature was cool outside, but it was hot, hot, hot inside Wednesday evening at the University of North Georgia men’s basketball game. And instead of cheers for the university’s Nighthawks, chants of “Aloha, Joseph!” filled the air. Calhoun resident Joseph Tippins, now 11, was first diagnosed with Burkitt’s lymphoma when he was 9.