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A sweet surprise

Skamania County women serve cookies to elementary students

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Cape Horn-Skye Elementary School students Sarah Vandehey and Mercedes Green are served cookies by Mary Ellen Grode and Andi Crockford. The two women, along with five others, baked several dozen cookies for the students to show them that, "people still care and they are loved." Photo by Rene Carroll

After Mary Ellen Grode heard a message in church, she set out to put it into action.

The story was about a group of people in a small community who wanted to show students they were loved. So, they made cookies and delivered them to a school.

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