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Vt. students visit Gainesville for alternative spring break
College volunteers spend a week with Challenged Child
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Volunteer Olivia DeWald, left, and Challenged Child & Friends paraprofessional Wanda Burns play a game during class Wednesday afternoon with students Savannah Baggett, Micah Conner, center, and Matthew Baumgardner.
Olivia DeWald, a college sophomore from Newtown, Conn., was on her way home for winter break the day a massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School shocked the community and country. “It was Dec. 14, and I was going home that day,” DeWald said. “It was definitely a hard winter break.”