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Mount Tahoma group seeks donations

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Published: Dec. 17, 2012 at 12:05 a.m. PST
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T he Mount Tahoma High School JROTC Thunderbird Battalion’s annual Christmas holiday food drive is currently raising food and funds to provide food baskets to school families that have been identified to be in need of assistance. The goal is to fill 50 baskets. The group is asking the public for food donations, including perishables. The last day of the drive is Wednesday.

Compiled by Debbie Cafazzo and Mary Anderson, staff writers

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