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celebrated their second annual Character Education Day Thursday, with special guests from the .

Students looked on as their teachers presented Margaret "Micki" Caput with a check for the center, and then retired to their respective classrooms for grade-specific activities.

First graders had guest speakers from the Senior Center who taught them what school was like when they were in the first grade. Mrs. Izsa's class hosted Alice Lundt and Connie Delio; Ms. Mulford's class hosted Sid Krueger; Mrs. Depascale's class hosted Alida van Bronkhorst; Mrs. Broedlin's class hosted Doris Wedwaldt; and Mrs. O'Connor's class hosted Jan Boettger and Chaput.

Second graders packed 250 lunches for the Bridges program, which gives meals to homeless people in Irvington, Newark and New York City. The students decorated the paper bags and wrote notes to go with the lunches.

Third graders assembled snack packs for needy children who eat school lunches during the week but do not have access to fresh foods over the weekend. Each of the 166 third graders made two lunches for a total of 322.

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