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Community outreach day comes to Challenged Child and Friends
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Samirah Konley, 3, checks out the inside of a Southeastern Freight Lines truck Thursday morning at Challenged Child and Friends in Gainesville. A variety of trucks, police cars and other vehicles were at the event for the children to explore. - photo by Erin O. Smith
Challenged Child and Friends was abuzz with honking horns, blue lights, fire trucks, an all-terrain vehicle and other attractions that brought smiles to the faces of students Thursday morning. The school for children with disabilities and their typically developing peers, which has kids ranging from 6 months old to 6 years old, can’t take field trips, so a wide variety of community partners showed up at the Murphy Drive school to provide some on-campus fun as part of the school’s community outreach day. Wyatt, 4, dressed up as a soldier.