This shy second grader from Roland Elementary penned this: "My dog's name was mason. He got ran over by a cop car and he wasw flat like a noospaper but he was still alive but he was bleting. His fase was skrached.

"We had to take him to the hospetel and he was not fine because he was all skrached up and he was not ded but the necked day he was ded and we had to bery him.

"He was not hir so we got a now dog and his name was hungry and he went into the road and he got ran over by a cop car and he was not ded but he was ded the nex day later so we had to bery him and he was not ok and he was not the same way. He was a good dog but I never seen him. I was sad. My mom was sad to so I wint to the gest room."

For her happy story she wrote, "My day was fun because I was my birthday. I had a pruty cake so I got a now bike and now shoos."

Give her a big hand. Dwayne Bennett at the club said, "She's my little athlete. She might be shy and quiet but when she gets on that basketball court she's a ball of fire. She really hustles."

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