Spreading Kindness in Saranac Lake schools
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By Aaron Cerbone
“Paws,” Petrova Elementary School’s polar bear mascot, high-fives Allie Ott on Jan. 28 at the culmination of the school’s participation in the Great Kindness Challenge. Ott was ecstatic about meeting Paws, grinning from ear-to-ear and hardly able to contain her excitement. Staff photo — Aaron Cerbone
eachers were dancing, police officers were cheering and a polar bear was handing out high-fives in front of Petrova Elementary School on Friday morning, Jan. 28. Counseling staff at the school had welcomed the community to greet students getting off their buses, returning the kindness the children had been showing all that week as part of the Great Kindness Challenge. Members of the Winter Carnival Court, New York State Police troopers and village police officers, members of the Saranac Lake Volunteer Fire Department, business owners and politicians were there to greet the students. Bloomingdale Elementary School students
