“Stay Warm for the Holidays”

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December 1, 2017

Zykia Riley hopes the blankets “will help people who don’t have what we have every day. They need it and we just want it.” (Staff Photo: Mary Braswell)

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Recreation Supervisor Tee Taylor shows off a pink blanket that will be given to a breast cancer fighter or survivor. (Staff Photo: Mary Braswell)

Lenzie Gay says he hopes the people who get the blankets feel loved. (Staff Photo: Mary Braswell)

Community service is a requirement to be a member of the Soaring Eagles Dance Team. (Staff Photo: Mary Braswell)

Soaring Eagle Cleymy Vicente said the blanket drive “teaches us to think about others and not just ourselves.” (Staff Photo: Mary Braswell)

Laila Hunter says her message for seniors is to never give up and always have faith and hope. “We are doing this so they will know there is hope in the world.” (Staff Photo: Mary Braswell)

Bags and boxes of blankets, 600 of them, were delivered by the Dougherty County Sheriff’s Office on Friday. (Staff Photo: Mary Braswell)

In front of one of the many decorated trees at Robert Cross Middle Magnet School are Asst. Principal Rodney Daniels, Yalonda Jackson, sixth grade math teacher and dance team director (center) and Principal Thelma Chunn. (Staff Photo: Mary Braswell)

Sixth grader Talil Howard says the blankets will help those with no warm place to sleep. (Staff Photo: Mary Braswell)

The challenge by the dance team director, Yalonda Jackson has been met. She will be dancing with the Soaring Eagles for the student body. (Staff Photo: Mary Braswell)

Yazmine Frazier, left, says the blankets will help people with no heat or warm jackets. Kenyari Sawyer hopes the blankets make the people receiving them happy and that they know someone loves them. (Staff Photo: Mary Braswell)

The Soaring Eagles Dance team poses with just a few of the blanket boxes. (Staff Photo: Mary Braswell)

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