Cookie bakers sending love to Uvalde
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June 11, 2022

Cookie bakers sending love to Uvalde

By Mon Valley Independent

By KRISTIE LINDEN

klinden@yourmvi.com

Sometimes when something deeply tragic happens, it can inspire people from all over to want to do something — anything. 

On May 24, an unthinkable yet all-to-familiar horror struck this country once again. This time, 21 people died in an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas — 19 of them children, who were mostly in the fourth grade.

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